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Random Terrain I don't bother chasing mice around. Wino!

In Topic: You Promised Scans and Didn't Deliver!

Posted 20 Mar 2010

Going by other forums on the Internet, I thought a moderator was supposed to be a touchy, biased, cliquey douchebag with a God complex? Where did this neutral, mature stuff come from?
In Topic: You Promised Scans and Didn't Deliver!

Posted 19 Mar 2010

Christophero Sly, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:43 PM, said:
All Phil has done is politely ask a select group of people to please follow through on getting him some scans.

Try yelling "You promised sex and didn't deliver!" at your wife or girlfriend, then ask her if she thought you were being polite.
In Topic: You Promised Scans and Didn't Deliver!

Posted 19 Mar 2010

You could always PM the people who forgot. If they're too busy to scan, they're probably too busy to see this thread. Or if they're like me, they probably don't even remember promising anything, so this thread would be useless even if they see it.
In Topic: Mass Effect 2 Discussion

Posted 19 Mar 2010

Jess Ragan, on Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:57 AM, said:
I cheated a bit and went to YouTube for the solution. Turns out you've got to mention a specific artist, music group, and drug to get through it. All the other paths lead to failure. (Also, yeah, I don't have the Paragon or Renegade points to open up some of the conversation choices. That's what I get for being diplomatic, I guess!)

Yeah, that guy standing kind of outside of the club tells you about the music group. Didn't know I could keep the murdery daughter.

In Topic: Code Snippets & Samples for bB Beginners

Posted 18 Mar 2010

Cliff Friedel, on Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:43 AM, said:

Anyone happen to have an example of a sound system subroutine that can be called from a main loop? The only way I can think of doing this would be to have the sound registers, a duration, the voice it belongs to (0 or 1)and then having it do something like

subroutine
if a = 1 then read data : load sound registers for voice
if a=duration variable then turn off audv0 or audv1 : a = 0 : return
a = a + 1
return

This seems like it would work, but I figured I would ask before trying it and wasting time (and bytes). Any other ideas?

Cliff

You mean like the kind of thing that the Music and Sound Editor can create? Right now it creates code using sdata, based on the Music Starter using sdata, but after the next update it will also create code that uses regular data if you want that will look like this:

   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *
   rem  *  Music Starter using data
   rem  *
   rem  *  Based on code posted in the Ballblazer thread at AtariAge:
   rem  *  http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=130990&view=findpost&p=1615280
   rem  *
   rem  *  Code adapted by Duane Alan Hahn (Random Terrain)
   rem  *
   rem  *  Explanation:
   rem  *  This has a 256-byte limitation.
   rem  *
   rem  *****************************************************


   set smartbranching on


   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Create aliases for variables
   rem  *****************************************************
   dim duration=a
   dim rand16=z


   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Variable descriptions
   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  duration - how long each note plays
   rem  *  x - data counter
   rem  *  rand16 - makes better random numbers


   rem  *  Volume off
   AUDV0=0
   AUDV1=0


   rem  *  Initialize duration and data counter
   duration = 1 : x = 0




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *
   rem  *  Main game loop starts here.
   rem  *
   rem  *****************************************************
MainLoop

   goto GetMusic
GotMusic

   drawscreen

   goto MainLoop




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Music
   rem  *****************************************************
GetMusic

   rem  *  Check for end of current note
   duration = duration - 1
   if duration>0 then GotMusic


   rem  *  Retrieve channel 0 data
   temp4 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp5 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp6 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1


   rem  *  Check for end of data
   if temp4=255 then duration = 1 : x = 0 : goto GotMusic


   rem  *  Play channel 0
   AUDV0 = temp4
   AUDC0 = temp5
   AUDF0 = temp6


   rem  *  Retrieve channel 1 data
   temp4 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp5 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   temp6 = musicData[x] : x = x + 1


   rem  *  Play channel 1
   AUDV1 = temp4
   AUDC1 = temp5
   AUDF1 = temp6


   rem  *  Set duration
   duration = musicData[x] : x = x + 1
   goto GotMusic




   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Music Data Block
   rem  *****************************************************
   rem  *  Format:
   rem  *  v,c,f (channel 0)
   rem  *  v,c,f (channel 1) 
   rem  *  d
   rem  *
   rem  *  Explanation:
   rem  *  v - volume (0 to 15)
   rem  *  c - control [a.k.a. tone, voice, and distortion] (0 to 15)
   rem  *  f - frequency (0 to 31)
   rem  *  d - duration


   data musicData
   8,12,29
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,29
   0,0,0
   8
   8,12,19
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,19
   0,0,0
   8
   8,12,17
   0,0,0
   15
   2,12,17
   0,0,0
   8

   255
end
   goto GotMusic

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Random Terrain
24 Dec 2009 - 9:06
Thanks. If you have any ideas on how to make the E.T. section of my site better, please let me know. I especially need ideas for new E.T. videos.
JacobZu7zu7
24 Dec 2009 - 9:00
Random and replayable = Heaven. Thx for showing how *replayable* E.T. is. Great site. I saw that site of urs many years ago, but just saying it now. Good work! E.T. LIVES... and he is the most unique charecter to play on the 2600 for me, and each time is different and fresh. Now that's a feat!
Random Terrain
18 Oct 2009 - 5:13
Darn! OK, forget it. Don't bring in the clones.
moycon
18 Oct 2009 - 12:15
I think even in a world full of RT clones. The original would always be considered the laziest.
Random Terrain
11 Oct 2009 - 2:46
Thanks, MausGames. I wish there were more people like me in the world too. Billions of them. Then I wouldn't seem to be so lazy. I'd just be average. :D
MausGames
11 Oct 2009 - 2:38
I second what Chickybaby said, even though the sarcasm drives me nuts. You're definitely an original thinker, wish there were a lot more guys like you in the world.
Random Terrain
27 Sep 2009 - 5:22
That sounds like a goodbye message, Chickybaby. Since you are a moderator now, Albert must have told you about his plan to ban me on Christmas day as a present to the AtariAge community. :D
Chickybaby
24 Sep 2009 - 4:13
RT, I love how you're post show intelligence and creativity. One minute you can be the most sarcastically hilarious bugger on AA, serious another, and helping and instructing the next. Long Live Randomness! It is definitely one unique and great trip knowing ya! Thanks. ;)
Polybius
23 Sep 2009 - 4:27
I like games like that too. theyre much more fun.
Foxy Cleopatra
24 Aug 2009 - 6:36
I do not have a question about batari Basic, but I did some Amazon shopping from your link Random.
The #5
29 Jul 2009 - 11:04
I have a question about batari Basic
Random Terrain
21 Apr 2009 - 3:58
You don't have to remove it, rpgfaker. It gave people a chance to talk about how it could have been funnier and why it wasn't funny as it is.
rpgfaker
21 Apr 2009 - 10:31
Hey Random Terrain I asked the moderators to remove the pacman video sorry if you were offended
Random Terrain
02 Nov 2007 - 7:43
Thanks.
128bytes
02 Nov 2007 - 1:39
Love the new avatar!