Console.Beep() Tetris tune on 20 computers

[Abyte0]

J'ai trouvé Charlie.... a 29 secondes :D

[holyartefact]

@Abyte0 Bof c'est juste Charles qui voulait pas trop s'afficher à l'écran lol.

[Renatodonadio]

That reminds me of when I had computer classes in the 90's, the machines were running MS DOS back then and they had installed on them a graphic program called "Fantavision" that played the organ tune "Jesus, my joy" on the PC speaker when it was launched, imagine the symphony when Fantavision was started on everyone of the 12 machines there were in the computer lab ;-D

[Renatodonadio]

...I mean if everyone started randomly Fantavision, not everyone at the same time, all the PCs started playing at different time and there was a cacophonic sound

[Domstang68]

That was pretty cool! I can hardly program simple sections of songs in PC Beep without it taking hours.

[holyartefact]

@Domstang68 It took us hours to compile those tunes too...

[BOS6940]

I would love to know how you edited the pitch of the beep... but since neither of my systems (one a laptop one a netbook) can produce beeps (Odd since Vista with old used to use real speakers) if i could get the script for Visual Studio 2008 that would be great!

[zebcode]

@BOS6940 C# Look up Console.Beep(int frequency, int millisecs);

change the value in frequency to change the pitch. Millisecs should be set to the required durration. Hope this helps :)

[KartSeven1]

@holyartefact What's that program with progress bar?

Console.Tetris()

[holyartefact]

@KartSeven1 Again it's a control in .NET Framework we simply took the position of the note and put it in the progress bar's value.

[murdoch201]

@holyartefact And how did you make the hard drives, or the floppy's or whatever make that noise?

[holyartefact]

@murdoch201 It's not hard drives... Back in the days, a lot of pc had an internal speaker whose only purpose is to make that annoying beep sound that windows does sometimes. We use that speaker, so, in our case, these computers didn't had general purpose speakers and we wanted to make sound anyway. That was the only solution.

[murdoch201]

@holyartefact Yes, i'm aware of the console.beep function. But from a lot of computers there is a sound, like 'star wars floppy'. How do you make that sound?

[KartSeven1]

@holyartefact What's that program that shows volume of the sound?

[holyartefact]

@KartSeven1 It's not really the volume of the sound it's the frequency of the note, Console.Beep doesn't have a volume setting.

[mat1794]

malade!

[asdxxme]

cool nerds

[Maach37]

Nice

[Kargaroc286]

This is what a Game Blaster / CMS sounds like

[isthisnickvalid]

Tetris like I never heard it before!! lol

[northernvoxmedia]

Haha yes!

[rinkavideos64]

this makes me wanna cry!

[Kuuiby]

HAHAHAHAHAHA XD

[soryy708]

Lol totally awesome!

[Bp1033]

Awesome! I wanted to do that for a long time myself lol

[privateabstract]

I'd like to know how they synchronised it so well. If it was done solely via sockets then it wouldn't be so well timed.

I'm guessing they took advantage of the time server on their network. Thoughts?

[holyartefact]

Not really.

It's plain Udp sockets.

The computers are only on the same network switch... But the future version of this program is going to synchronize themselves with a network clock.

[1mannlan]

@holyartefact

Could u send me the Beep list pls for this melody?

THX! :)

[liam12347]

@holyartefact But If it's going on the network clock will it slow down if there are too many?

[FuNaFiGhT]

Schoolservers are realy good to do this

[L2DragonHunter]

Networking FTW ^_^

[Mikister]

Thank you so much for the inspiration. Because of this video, I'm writing down several songs in Visual Basic, including Never Gonna Give You Up, Flight of the Bumblebee, and, of course, Tetris. Can't wait to play them in public.

[eLMagodelRock]

God! really nice!

[theJohnnyRancid]

Very nice, guys! Type A song will never leave my brain.

[Chuk1Y]

3p1c w1n!!

[QuadRaxiX]

AGE OF THE GEEK

[ProudOfAyu]

Surprenant les boys! De un, je peux être fier de dire que je vous connais, de deux, je reconnais le local pour y avoir passé trop de temps déjà! Good job!

[holyartefact]

Hmmm je me demande c'est qui dans la classe qui avait pas vu ce vidéo là lol!

[ProudOfAyu]

Qui sait, peut-être que le D-2912 pour moi c'est déjà du passé ;)

[Lexy015]

how did you do this??

[naikrovek]

probably something like java or C# program that listens on a network port for some UDP packets telling it what note to play, then a master machine sending out packets to each machine sending those packets out to each machine. in reality it's probably not a true console beep, but a genuine note with frequency and duration.

[holyartefact]

In fact the master machine (server) were just sending a byte to tell to start. Every computer had the "partition" file. Yes this is C#, and yes this is true Console.Beep(durantion,frequen­cy); we used.

[Mikister]

Hello, and thank you for your wonderful video.

I'm curious, how did you get two "beeps" to play at the same time?

[holyartefact]

It's simple! We can't play two beeps at the same time. This is why we divided 20 computers in groups of 5 and each group had is partition. So we divided the song in 4 partition so each group can play it simultaneously.

[AntonLion]

Whaa, votre cégep a du budget, des écrans plats partout.

[holyartefact]

Oui quand même tout ce qu'on avait est assez récent. Mais les gars en réseau avait plus de grosses machines que nous. =D

[geekstor]

OSC instead of plain UDP and your synch is a ok.

[GallileoPaballa]

Multicast UDP? That's a good way to do it, but you don't have any bounds on how long it can take, so you're likely to never get it quite synchronized.

[y0utubesmells]

pretty good

[okinweginwh]

Winrar, success, etc.

[joeleb]

and then...?  :\

[supaflyjohnson]

ZUT ALORS

[JRCrowley]

No, that's FRANCE French, these guys are QUEBEC French. There's a big difference.

These guys would say, Maudit Tabernac.

[holyartefact]

In fact, just after we did the video we all sayed : "Calisse! ça planté!".

[mattj2217]

I did this in 2006 but never recorded a video.

Go to brilliant-bytes . com and click on the link to a program called "Netbeep"

The source is included, and runs on windows and Linux.

[mattj2217]

Nice :)

[stax0160]

LOL. J'etais comme "Ca me dit qqch c'te place la... OH SHIT C'EST EDOUARD"

[holyartefact]

Ouais en effet, et c'est fou comment on a eu de la misère a avoir un lab d'info vide. Après on voulais le faire sur les 3 locals de prog mais ça aurait été trop abus.

[fr3d420]

too bad its the simple version.

[xxgossyxx]

je deteste le ordinateur beeps! noob

[holyartefact]

Alors pourquoi tu regarde le vidéo? Si ça t'intéresse pas fait autre chose lol!

[cheesechoker]

@xxgossyxx ಠ_ಠ

[calvin950]

Narwhals

[btnheazy03]

bacon-flavored ones

[marioka94]

Funny!

[clubpenguin1help]

Haha Genius!

[michel0003]

i guess they used a winsock controller?

[holyartefact]

In fact we used the UdpClient Class in C#... which is wraping all thew winsock in the code behind so yes!

[fertyl6]

Epic Fail in the begining

[VoiXer]

awesome !

[thebasdagger]

amazing

[Galactis87]

lol! Vous l'avez fait finalement! Awesome!

[djmaxion]

Wow,.

[pklordz]

nice

[amazingeek]

lol

[dodbobjesus]

Nice

Moi je l'ai codé avec C# avec plein de Console.Beep sur juste un ordi et il sonne vraiment bien :P

[toaster13666]

very nice :D

[Patricklaurence]

Dude. C'est fucking geek.

[darkkeness34]

!!!!!!!!

[darkkeness34]

I LUV U GUYS

[darkkeness34]

LOL C'EST TALON!