I didn't have the splash screen, but I programmed "Wipeout" by the ventures. I remember being excited that I found a noise generator function when I was learning about the TI.
How painful it was to sit there and enter line by line and note by note "Call sound (440,100,2)"
for pitch, duration and volume. Being polyphonic was lucky, though, you could do 3 and four note chords. WOW !
Boy, if you could dig up the original cassette tape, I could transfer it! If I remember correctly, all the music line code was entered by my sister. One line at a time... I'm sure it took her days if not weeks to do, then she had to debug the program :P
I'm still amazed that I was able to find this and recreate it. I guess old data never dies!
I had the same machine.
I didn't have the splash screen, but I programmed "Wipeout" by the ventures. I remember being excited that I found a noise generator function when I was learning about the TI.
How painful it was to sit there and enter line by line and note by note "Call sound (440,100,2)"
for pitch, duration and volume. Being polyphonic was lucky, though, you could do 3 and four note chords. WOW !
:)
Cool stuff!
TerrorNoctus 2 years ago
Boy, if you could dig up the original cassette tape, I could transfer it! If I remember correctly, all the music line code was entered by my sister. One line at a time... I'm sure it took her days if not weeks to do, then she had to debug the program :P
I'm still amazed that I was able to find this and recreate it. I guess old data never dies!
DukeNukeIt 2 years ago
Pretty cool. Those early computers sure were fun... and programming them was something pretty much anyone could do.
dogfarts888 2 years ago