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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by geco on Yesterday at 15:11 »
And mostly used way by Szipucsu, create/modify midi's and convert it to EPM format :D
And the midi's with ENVELOPE.TXT can be converted by daveconv for a game friendly output also :)
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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by ergoGnomik on Yesterday at 14:00 »
I cannot imagine any other methods to create music for the Enterprise.
Oh, silly me. I forgot the most obvious way to do it: write it in IS-BASIC. As you do it in your games, if I'm not mistaken.
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Konvertálás / Re: Szoftveres CPC emulátor EP-re
« Last post by Lacika on Yesterday at 12:55 »
Az durva, hogy ilyen sebességgel fut, valljuk be...
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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by geco on Yesterday at 12:31 »
As far as I could understand, VGM in itself is an organized collection of register writes. Therefore, writing a player that you use to save those register writes again seems to be somewhat like wasted efforts to me. And then again, you have an unwieldy mass of register writes data like in the case with the SID files. Unless DAVECONV have some aces up its sleeves like pattern recognition and referencing to optimize memory use.
Yes, it is an organized collection of register writes, delay time is set, register, and value, as i remember, but for Daveconv we need all register values written in each 50Hz, so we get a mass of 16 bytes from each frame, and Daveconv will generate an envelope table, and a music data table from the huge register output file.
The problem with Music Box is, it does not handle special Dave effects (It is not a problem for me, because i will never write any music :D )
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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by ergoGnomik on Yesterday at 11:02 »
One solutition could be done, create a VGM player, which saves Dave register values the same way as MIDICONV does, and then we could use DAVECONV to create music binary, and use the player of Daveconv.
As far as I could understand, VGM in itself is an organized collection of register writes. Therefore, writing a player that you use to save those register writes again seems to be somewhat like wasted efforts to me. And then again, you have an unwieldy mass of register writes data like in the case with the SID files. Unless DAVECONV have some aces up its sleeves like pattern recognition and referencing to optimize memory use.
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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by ergoGnomik on Yesterday at 10:47 »
I cannot imagine any other methods to create music for the Enterprise.
Music Box 1.2 © 1991, Gyányi Sándor (download)
Rockdigi © 1992, DevilSoft (download)
And there are two more in the ep128.hu utility collection. Obviously, they are outside your comfort zone but nonetheless exist. So you don't have to imagine any. ;-)
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Konvertálás / Re: Szoftveres CPC emulátor EP-re
« Last post by SlashNet on 2024.May.17. 23:30:12 »
Tetris dotBAS

Nice colorful Tetris written on pure Locomotive Basic.
https://falcaucer.itch.io/tetris

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run"tetris.basControls: WASD
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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by geco on 2024.May.13. 13:22:46 »
One solutition could be done, create a VGM player, which saves Dave register values the same way as MIDICONV does, and then we could use DAVECONV to create music binary, and use the player of Daveconv.
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Other topics / Re: Allsorts of interesting finds
« Last post by SlashNet on 2024.May.13. 11:55:46 »
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Lewis Packwood - Curious Video Game Machines: A Compendium of Rare and Unusual Consoles, Computers and Coin-Ops

Chapter 8 of this book is devoted to the history of the Enterprise computer.

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https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=0rfSEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT486&hl=ru&pg=PT169#v=twopage&q&f=false
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Other topics / Re: Furnace Tracker (for PC)
« Last post by geco on 2024.May.13. 11:28:41 »
VGM players exists for retro computers: MSX, Atari 800, Memotech MTX.
The question here is how compact and convenient this format is for use in demos or games.

As I see some people have used the effects of the DAVE chip just for curiosity (and a funny name).
https://youtu.be/Wll5d2tDrWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nc2fOB8a3I
VGM format uses quite big space, and i do not remember how much CPU was used by my player, probably not so much, i remember had problems with sample playback, because the memory paging is way too slow for z80 on Genesis.
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