My BBC Master

Richmond Mathewson geradamas at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 9 15:09:00 EDT 2009


The other day I got out my BBC Master Compact
[strictly speaking that is a lie: I used Richard Bannister's
excellent port of the Horizon BBC emulator with ROM images "sucked"
from my Beeb (that reposes in my attic in my house in Scotland):

http://www.bannister.org/software/horizon.htm

however, it isn't as satisfying as my own Beeb - I wonder when
computer designers will realise that a SHIFT-LOCK is really a
very good thing?]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master

and was fiddling around with it, and decided to play some music:

10 FOR A=1 TO 100
20 P=RND(100)*4
30 SOUND 1, -10, P, 5
40 NEXT

a sort of cheap version of early Kraftwerk; extremely elegant and
economical code!

Now, I'm a bit geeky, and I quite like corny old computer
generated music in its own funny way:

http://www.sidmusic.org/sidplay/mac/

is my latest "poison"!

So, I thought, how can one do that with Runtime Revolution?

The answer is probably "not without embedding sound files" . . .

Hypercard could do this:

play Fiddle tempo 200  "59q 64q 64q 59q 64h 64e 66e 67q 66q 64q 64e 62e 59q"

as far as I remember this leveraged Quicktime Instruments . . .

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/SW/HyperCard/TeachHC/hcsound/hcmusic.html

certainly looking up "tempo" in the RR documentation confirmed my
suspicions.

Any bright ideas gratefully received.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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