Re: [stella] Duel Arena

Subject: Re: [stella] Duel Arena
From: crackers@xxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:34:32 -0400 (EDT)
In article <Pine.BSI.3.96.970828195504.7812B-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:

>That's right.  I suppose if you generate the waveform on the fly that even
>simple sound hardware like the Apple II will suffice.
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Heck.. if you're generating the waveform on the fly you could probably do
it with Timex-Sinclair ZX-80. ;) As long as there's 1-bit available
for sound you should be able to do it.

Hmmmm... an on the fly .BIN to Waveform programme might be useful. If you
used the PC's internal speaker then people who don't have soundcards or
286+ would be able to develope games too. (you'll have to replace the
speaker with a headphone jack... not too hard (remember to put an 8K resistor
in parallel with the jack though)). Finally a use for all those ancient
8088 laptops.

What would be nice about this is everyone would be able to make a file
server for their 2600 like I have. I was lucky enough to have a spare
386 and sound card, but if we had a programme that went direct from .BIN to
Waveform without the use of a soundcard on the PC, then we'd all be able to
pick up a cheap XT at the Goodwill/Salley Anne (in my town the Goodwill has
upped the prices of XTs from $10 to $25, but the Sally Anne still sells them
for $10). The small 40 meg hard drives these beasties contain would still be
more than enough to hold all the 2K and 4K bins since you wouldn't have to
store massive .WAV files. Then you just set up some numbered batch files to
generate the waveforms on the fly... easy access to all your .BIN files on
a genuine 2600.

Of course, what would we call the programe? It's not makeing .WAVs so I guess
we could call it MAKENOYZ.EXE ;)

And speaking of generating the supercharger waveforms on the fly...
I recall once we were speculating about adding a "save game" capability to
the 2600 games that didn't use codes by using the 2600 to generate a
supercharger waveform that could be saved to tape. 

                                   CRACKERS
                      (Ambitious 2600 programmes from hell!!)


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