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[mäsäxi]

Hello!

A simple question:

Can you please tell me the name of this familiar melody which plays during "Lone Raider" is loading? (starts at 0:48)

Next song is clearly Flight of the Bumblebee. (2:37)





I guess the tune is made on some synthesizer? First I thought it is made with Atari, but some effects make me think of synthesizer. Or maybe it is recorded from Atari and modified afterwards? Does anybody know? Somehow tunes remember me of some BBC/Electron game/loading tunes..

Thank you in advance!

[Fox-1 / mnx]

quote from description:

The music contains renditions of 'The Syncopated Clock' and 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'.

[mäsäxi]

Oh, ok! Should have watched that other video too! Thank you!

[Gunstar]

I was just playing this game the day before yesterday, I had found the cassette (in original case) in a box of stuff my mom sent me, mostly old college textbooks.

It worked fine, though listening to the music with the loading in the background kind of stinks. I assume this was originally released for the 400/800 and the music probably played through the keyboard speaker, so one could turn down the TV/monitor audio and listen to the music?

Edited by Gunstar, Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:41 PM.

[Stephen]

I always did like that ATASCII rendition of the Fuji logo.

[Bryan]

The 400/800 play cassette audio through the TV, not the internal speaker.

The fact that you can hear loading noise even when it's supposed to be turned off is due to the constuction of the SIO cables. The audio line isn't shielded so it picks up noise from the data being sent through the cable. If you build an SIO out of cable that includes some shielded wires (like most VGA cable) you can get much cleaner audio-in and complete silence when you turn off loading noises.

[Gunstar]

Bryan, on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:52 PM, said:

...complete silence when you turn off loading noises.

You do mean on the tapes that DO turn off the loading noises right? I, myself can't turn them off except for turning down the volume, correct? There's no button I can hold when I press START to load a tape that will turn off the loading sound is there? If there is, I either missed it for 27 years or just plum forgot.

[Bryan]

Gunstar, on Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:30 PM, said:

Bryan, on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:52 PM, said:

...complete silence when you turn off loading noises.

You do mean on the tapes that DO turn off the loading noises right? I, myself can't turn them off except for turning down the volume, correct? There's no button I can hold when I press START to load a tape that will turn off the loading sound is there? If there is, I either missed it for 27 years or just plum forgot.

Poking 65,0 causes the OS to turn off Pokey's loading sounds if you're loading in BASIC (or some other language environment). If you're booting the computer from floppy or tape, the sounds will be on unless the loader turns them off.

[Fox-1 / mnx]

If you have a monitor that can interrupt a running system (like Black Box monitor or BiBoMon and possibly others) you can boot with start, edit address #65, store a zero, return to system and then press RETURN to start the loading without I/O sound.

Note that I didn't actually try this but I think it should work.

[Marius1976]

It also has to do with the right balance. When the head of your data recorder needs adjustment (which it probably does) you would pick up unwanted signals from the right channel.

Right channel of tape is data
Left channel is available for audio

Data read on right channel results in almost no noise on Atari ... The lower pitched load sound (which you might remember from loading a basic program you CSAVEd by yourself) is interpreted audio and produced by the Atari.

If you hear the nervous very high pitched sounds... That is the left channel.

So if you are 100% sure that data is ONLY recorded on right channel (with nothing on left channel or music or spoken language on left channel) but you hear that high pitched annoying and nervous data sound on your speaker.... Adjust your data recorder head... But do that gently!!! It can easily fall from it's mounting bracket.

[Gunstar]

Marius1976, on Wed Feb 1, 2012 4:35 PM, said:

It also has to do with the right balance. When the head of your data recorder needs adjustment (which it probably does) you would pick up unwanted signals from the right channel.

Right channel of tape is data
Left channel is available for audio

Data read on right channel results in almost no noise on Atari ... The lower pitched load sound (which you might remember from loading a basic program you CSAVEd by yourself) is interpreted audio and produced by the Atari.

If you hear the nervous very high pitched sounds... That is the left channel.

So if you are 100% sure that data is ONLY recorded on right channel (with nothing on left channel or music or spoken language on left channel) but you hear that high pitched annoying and nervous data sound on your speaker.... Adjust your data recorder head... But do that gently!!! It can easily fall from it's mounting bracket.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out!

[Bryan]

Before you adjust anything in your tape player, try loading a disk game that turns loading beeps off (like the gtia animation in Ballblazer). If you hear the disk loading in the background, the cross-talk is not coming from the tape deck.