Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86
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Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86
Well, yes, I agree about it being difficult, and
I'm not going to say I'm an awesome ASM programmer, b/c I really have very
little of an idea on how to do it... I've tried, and I agree that I
haven't studied it so I have no real place in critiquing other programmers,
etc... But look at it like this:
There is this program out there for the 85. I don't know
how it works, but it makes it possible to display sprites through a basic
program. I don't remember it's name, but you input a series of numbers
into a string, and then put in a command, and it displayed a sprite based on
that string. If any of you have heard of this, I know it was very
unstable, and that's why I don't use it.
But, it used ASM programs to be able to do that. When
the Basic command of BEEP(1,5) is come across, then an ASM program would be run
to interpret that and give the beep, then exit. As long as the tone wasn't
too long, then it would work seamlessly in a pong game, b/c ASM is so fast, it
would run and be back to the Basic code before anyone noticed it.
Once again, I'm not saying I know everything about ASM
programming, but this is just how I see it to be a feasible idea...
Hmm well your idea is sound (no pun sorry)
... and there would be a few uses however there are a few problems with
it. First the sound created by the calc is not just something that you
can do when ever you want you must be in a asm program (i don't have no clue
about basic) also if you have played around with the sound speakers or
whatever you use you know that it is a realy pain to jamb them in to hear
the sound. So on top of the problem of "hacking" the basic
menu and adding a command you also have to worry about weither or not it
will work at all in a basic prog. Also i don't know if you have messed
with sound in asm, but it is a real pain! It is not that easy to just
have a nice beep for a few seconds let alone adding a user control for it in
a outpt stye syntax. What you are proposing could be done although
there are many things you should think of before attempting this that i have
not mentioned so if you really really really want a beep in a basic program
then go for it. If not i would think you might want to think of
another idea.
You know guys.... I
suggested a very similar prgram a very long time ago... It
was a bit different than this though... Some of you may remember
it. I suggested hacking the BASIC prgram editor so that an
extra command was present under the I/O menu. Called
BEEP(.
Anyway... We never got very far w/ it, but when
come accross by in the program, it would read 2 or three parameters
after the parantheses separated by commas, and then give off an
according, BEEP.
Like have the parameters be:
Length of beep
Pitch of beep
etc...
I don't think many people liked this idea, b/c they
kinda shot it down last time.
> Is there a program
out there that will convert midi files into ones that a
>
ti-86 (or another ti) can read and play? And if someone says
"hey that's cool
> -- I'll make one" I think
you should (as a suggestion) make a prgram that
> will
start and then give you a the list of midis on your calc. (store
the
> midi's as strings). I know that there is a way to
do wav files, but those
> just take up too much room and sound
really bad... at least midis wouldn't
> sound much worse than
they already do :) (I still like midi's).
Even if
not midis, a program that could play a string of notes (like
the
QBasic "play" command) would be useful. From there, it
wouldn't be hard to write programs that could convert from MIDI
to
it, and to other(?)
formats.
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