Console.Beep() Tetris tune on 20 computers

This is a long dream that me and my friend Max (in the video) had since we entered college.
The project is simple, using the internal speaker of each computer in the class to play a different channel (instrument) of the tetris theme.
All computers are linked with the upd protocol, so not all the computers are synchronised, but for now it will be good!
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C'est un long rêve que moi et mon ami Max (celui dans la vidéo) avons depuis que nous sommes entrés au cegep.
Le projet est simple, on utilise le haut-parleur interne de chacun des ordis pour jouer un canal (instrument) différent de la musique de Tétris.
Tous les ordinateurs sont reliés via le protocole udp, alors ils ne sont pas parfaitement syncronisés... Mais ça fait la job!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Tetris
• C#
• Console
• Beep
• Udp

[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.

[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...

[JRCrowley]

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

These guys would say, Maudit Tabernac.

[stax0160]

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

[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

[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

[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?

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

[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 :)