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MC
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Registered: Jul 2009
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music-assembler
Any of you ever used it?
I am partly responsible for its existence.
Together with OPM who lived next door from me at the time (we lost contact) we decided after ripping lots of game tunes by Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway that we could do better technically.
We created a player routine which could play good sounding music based on tracks, sequences and presets (like hubbard's routine) minimizing RAM usage but without having big peaks in rasterline usage. The trick was working around the waiting stuff that had to be done with the SID or otherwise it wouldn't trigger. We accomplished this by having the player think ahead and make decisions for the next time the interrupt would be triggered. This routine would later become the music-assembler player code. The rest is history.
The two of us created the player routine, OPM was responsible for the track editor and I did the sequence and preset editors. We contacted Markt+Technik who also published some magazines in Germany and we had a publishing deal. They sold quite a large number of copies to my surprise at the time. I think I was about 17 years old or something back then.
I've read there were later 'updated' versions of our 1.0 release by Triad. Can anyone tell me what they changed/improved? I haven't seen a C64 in decades.
Cheers,
Marco Swagerman a.k.a. MC/DusaT
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
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Quote: Quote:Losing months of work to disk crashes is the modern version of "the dog ate my homework", really.
cant agree with that :) the later was an excuse for beeing lazy... the first is just a sign of beeing stupid =P
Can't see there's any disagreement, assuming the dog excuse is stated with the expectancy of being believed. ;-) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5127 |
Quote: Quoting Jan HarriesI started to make a music player in january, and i had the tracker system ready, and some limited sound, and a data format, and then my harddisk died and i lost it all.
i didnt take a backup for 3 months, and that was a big mistake.. :(
Your mistake was not using revision control and commiting your work to a repository somewhere where backup is done automatically. Losing months of work to disk crashes is the modern version of "the dog ate my homework", really.
ah, good to know that p1 and all my other stuff is "the dog ate my homework", really. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1661 |
@mc: Just to repeat.. the ADSR bug is equally present in the old and the new SID. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523 |
Quote:Can't see there's any disagreement, assuming the dog excuse is stated with the expectancy of being believed. ;-)
but the dog excuse is usually used by those who wanted to "have their homework eaten" :) (i might be naiv enough to believe noone uses the disk crash excuse for simply not having done anything. what remains is the stupidity of not doing backups) |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 257 |
Quoting Oswaldah, good to know that p1 and all my other stuff is "the dog ate my homework", really.
What, you lost all the source code in a disk crash and didn't have any backup? Or were you just lucky enough not to have a disk crash before the final versions were released?
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SIDWAVE
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Quote: Quoting Oswaldah, good to know that p1 and all my other stuff is "the dog ate my homework", really.
What, you lost all the source code in a disk crash and didn't have any backup? Or were you just lucky enough not to have a disk crash before the final versions were released?
whats the problem ?
surely there must be re-assemblers for pc...
and about my homework eaten by the dog theory, well i can just say i am oldskool. i dont use or have knowledge how to use such things as cvs and all that.
i always kept it very simple with a cli assembler and 1 file with the whole program in it.
a guy like me, i tried 3 times in all, i couldnt compile the richard joseph demo, because its 100s of files and paths, and i couldnt get my pc to find the paths nomatter what i tried.
surely i could have added the 3 last tunes, linked the intro on and some minor things, but when i cant even get the shit to compile, im lost.
"compile mydemo.s" --> gives prg/exe file, now thats what i prefer!
i know this is dinosaur tech, but it works every time.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523 |
and ofcourse that has everything to do with beeing stupid enough to not have backups =) |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Patronizing users and calling yourself a moderator, how useless.
You should man up and resign this post, coz your not fit for it. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523 |
lol, ofcourse. a good moderator in this case would pet you on the back saying "well done boy! you lost all your data! backups are for newschool lamers!". |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5127 |
well, jan has definitly right in this case, you're constantly stirring the shit. thats not something a mod should do on the forums. |
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