A loader demo. (manic water)

[uglifruit]

Here's a little 'demo' (I suppose) of me making a loading tune. Questionable as to where this belongs in the music forum!



HERE

(Turn off the flash loading, and listen to it load).

[TMD2003]

Well executed. Next (software) project: further loading blocks as Willy loses lives, the pitch drops, and the notes fall out of tune...

[uglifruit]

If you don't want to load it yourself, video of it in action here...
https://youtu.be/CnCfioSB5RM

[R-Tape]

That's really cool. Was it done by eye and ear trial and error, or was any maths involved?

[uglifruit]

I wrote a program to write an arbitrary set of bits either on-or-off. So given 3,4 it'll write '11100001 11000011 10000111 00001110' etc. (Which was a bit of a pain to do!)

The added a counter as to how long it'd last (with 1's lasting twice as long as 0's)

Then wrote, what I suppose you'd call a memory loader, where a Data string (3,4) (1,6) (2,2) (14,1) etc would each be written to last the same amount of time.

The did lots of permutations, recorded the results, and by ear mapped which ones were closest to actual notes (some notes weren't ever quite created 'in tune').

Then put the data for the notes I wanted in, and ran the "load it into the screen memory" thing. For this I just used the bottom third of the screen. By default though I was using it all+attributes.

So a combination of masses of work. Some by ear. Loads of effort. Very little reward.

I think I'll refine and might make something more like a step sequencer, or at least make myself some meaningful equ statements for my ASM.

[uglifruit]

I know people have done this kind of thing before, but I've no idea what approach they've taken... I'm all about reinventing the wheel!

[Jbizzel]

Here's a little 'demo' (I suppose) of me making a loading tune. Questionable as to where this belongs in the music forum!



HERE

(Turn off the flash loading, and listen to it load).

Brilliant!!