Subject: [stella] music, music, music! From: KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 19 Feb 2004 05:03:24 -0000 |
So I got to my fencepost error in my music kernal by displaying some counters as PF1 and player graphic data, and then cranking down Z26 to like 3 Frames Per Second. I'm not sure why I didn't find it before, I think previously I might have screwed up my music data and thus obscured the real problem that I sensed was lurking in the engine itself. To get the rhythm of the music, I created a 10 line java program that would show me the length of time between Enter-keystrokes. I figure 24 frames per quarternote works pretty well, since it's divisible by both 4 and 3, so you can do triplet stuff as well as normal eigth and sixteenth notes. It's nice to be able to put a riff into atari-ese. Oddly enogh, the 4 bar pattern I used isn't one of the ones I have from my days playing tuba in highschool for other guys to improvise over, but rather made of these 4 notes this toy ukulele I got as a gift happened to be tuned to. (well, really, it's just 4 sequential notes on a chromatic scale, but when I started playing it, it fell into a pattern that reminded me of something I heard in a Mega Man game once upon a time) I'm especially happy with the way the percussion came out. You can hear the results at http://alienbill.com/joustpong/20040218.bin source at http://alienbill.com/joustpong/20040218.source.txt I just kind of cut and paste into my game from the minikernal I was developing on, and I think I managed to get a minor frame skip problem when select is hit, but overall I'm very pleased with the results. Again, I welcome any feedback, though I'm more concerned with the gameplay physics / AI right now. -- KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://kisrael.com "There are two adults and one child. Majority rules. Live like an animal or die." --James Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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