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Message: 660
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 07/09/2000
Subject: 128K music
sendy_baby wrote:
>
> also... i am
still totally in the dark about
> 128k music
editing. although john gave a brief
> description, i
spent half a day trying to edit
> the file but my
technical knowledge is simply
> not up to it
:(
I'm not sure if I will be able to edit the 128K
tunes, either. It certainly would be nice for the JSW128
version of Party Willy (the two-part 48K version will
certainly have edited tunes).
JSW128 uses Ian
Collier's music program. I once downloaded it and had a
brief look, but I couldn't see how to edit tunes from a
cursory glance.
What I'd really like is a program
to convert the strings accepted by 128 BASIC's PLAY
command to Ian Collier's 128K music format. I compose all
my tunes by working out the notes on a piano, and
then experimenting with PLAY in 128 BASIC to get the
rhythm right, and then writing the tunes by hand in
MM/JSW tune format (using Richard Hallas' music document
-
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/music.html target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/music.html> ).
A nice patch for the JSW game engine
would be to specify tunes for individual rooms in the
room data, with the option, in JSW128, of having 48K
tunes instead.
> if anyone could write an
'idiot's guide' that
> would be great, seeing as
there are several 128
> games coming out in the
near future and it would
> be rather monotonous
to have the same music for
> each (not that i
ever play with the music on
> anyway
:).
I would love to see such a document, written by
Richard Hallas/John Elliott/Ian Collier or whoever! :-)
:-)
> or maybe if someone can point to some
>
'replacement' files..... is it possible to find
> another
.tun file and simply have that in it's
>
place?
Ian Collier's program comes with various built-in
tunes, but I don't know if it would be as simple as
plugging them in without modifying the JSW128 engine
because .TUN files are of variable length, and knowing
nothing about the format, I don't even know whether the
length of the .TUN file is directly proportional to the
duration of the tune (after all, the strings accepted by
the PLAY command are not).
There are three
.TUN files in JSW128, so this calls for an obvious
simple experiment.
--
Andrew
Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/>
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