Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86

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Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86

Actually, the way to do it would be to make it into an ASAP function like the statistics and financial add-ons.  Someone suggested a while ago about making an entire add-on pack for basic that would include sprites and such.  This would be nice, except that you would have to send the asap install program with the basic program, so things might get complicated.  If you want info on asaps, check out Dux's site.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave <scheltem@aaps.k12.mi.us>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86

Hmm well your idea is sound (no pun sorry) ... and there would be a few uses however there are a few problems with it.  First the sound created by the calc is not just something that you can do when ever you want you must be in a asm program (i don't have no clue about basic) also if you have played around with the sound speakers or whatever you use you know that it is a realy pain to jamb them in to hear the sound.  So on top of the problem of "hacking" the basic menu and adding a command you also have to worry about weither or not it will work at all in a basic prog.  Also i don't know if you have messed with sound in asm, but it is a real pain!  It is not that easy to just have a nice beep for a few seconds let alone adding a user control for it in a outpt stye syntax.  What you are proposing could be done although there are many things you should think of before attempting this that i have not mentioned so if you really really really want a beep in a basic program then go for it.  If not i would think you might want to think of another idea.
Dave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kelbo <mckbuck@coastalnet.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86

You know guys....   I suggested a very similar prgram a very long time ago...   It was a bit different than this though...  Some of you may remember it.   I suggested hacking the BASIC prgram editor so that an extra command was present under the I/O menu.  Called  BEEP(.
 
Anyway...  We never got very far w/ it, but when come accross by in the program, it would read 2 or three parameters after the parantheses separated by commas, and then give off an according, BEEP.
 
Like have the parameters be:
 
Length of beep
Pitch of beep
etc...
 
I don't think many people liked this idea, b/c they kinda shot it down last time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Simpson <7lc@psouth.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86



> Is there a program out there that will convert midi files into ones that a
> ti-86 (or another ti) can read and play?  And if someone says "hey that's cool
> -- I'll make one"  I think you should  (as a suggestion) make a prgram that
> will start and then give you a the list of midis on your calc. (store the
> midi's as strings).  I know that there is a way to do wav files, but those
> just take up too much room and sound really bad... at least midis wouldn't
> sound much worse than they already do  :)  (I still like midi's).

Even if not midis, a program that could play a string of notes (like
the QBasic "play" command) would be useful. From there, it
wouldn't be hard to write programs that could convert from MIDI to
it, and to other(?) formats.

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