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How do you play Electric Duet music files outside of the original disk?
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Brian
Dec 16, 2012, 3:19:48 AM12/16/12
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I'd like to add some music to a new game I'm working on (don't worry,
not during the actual game play, that is far beyond me), but perhaps
in the background during the intro screen.
I have all the music files and the actual music player extracted, now
what code do I use to play it in BASIC?
Thanks.
not during the actual game play, that is far beyond me), but perhaps
in the background during the intro screen.
I have all the music files and the actual music player extracted, now
what code do I use to play it in BASIC?
Thanks.
bloomer_au
Dec 16, 2012, 4:30:47 AM12/16/12
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Let's say your player file is called PLAY and your music file is called M.MUSIC. What you do is:
1. BLOAD PLAY,A$300
2. BLOAD M.MUSIC,A$6000 (You can load it elsewhere if you want, but I think this is the duet's default load position)
3. POKE 30,0 and POKE 31,96 (These pokes tell the player where to find the music data. You would change them if you loaded the music somewhere other than A$6000)
4. CALL 768
Are you using PRODOS? If so, you can put the BLOADs in your program like so:
20 ?CHR$(4)"BLOAD PLAY,A$300"
If you're using DOS 3.3, you need to account for the chr$(4) bug, but I'll only bother typing about that if it proves relevant :)
- Wade
1. BLOAD PLAY,A$300
2. BLOAD M.MUSIC,A$6000 (You can load it elsewhere if you want, but I think this is the duet's default load position)
3. POKE 30,0 and POKE 31,96 (These pokes tell the player where to find the music data. You would change them if you loaded the music somewhere other than A$6000)
4. CALL 768
Are you using PRODOS? If so, you can put the BLOADs in your program like so:
20 ?CHR$(4)"BLOAD PLAY,A$300"
If you're using DOS 3.3, you need to account for the chr$(4) bug, but I'll only bother typing about that if it proves relevant :)
- Wade
Steve Nickolas
Dec 16, 2012, 11:25:37 AM12/16/12
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, bloomer_au wrote:
> Are you using PRODOS? If so, you can put the BLOADs in your program like
> so:
>
> 20 ?CHR$(4)"BLOAD PLAY,A$300"
>
> If you're using DOS 3.3, you need to account for the chr$(4) bug, but
> I'll only bother typing about that if it proves relevant :)
This is why I often use ?:? CHR$(4), since it works on both OSes.
> Are you using PRODOS? If so, you can put the BLOADs in your program like
> so:
>
> 20 ?CHR$(4)"BLOAD PLAY,A$300"
>
> If you're using DOS 3.3, you need to account for the chr$(4) bug, but
> I'll only bother typing about that if it proves relevant :)
-uso.
Michael J. Mahon
Dec 16, 2012, 4:35:59 PM12/16/12
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It's not hard to keep track of whether an EOL is pending. Most programs
don't want to do disk I/O in the middle of printing a like!
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
Brian
Dec 17, 2012, 3:05:04 AM12/17/12
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