Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS Sound (was:Re: Stellar 7 re-release) Message-ID: <1990Dec17.212732.12062@hoss.unl.edu> Date: 17 Dec 90 21:27:32 GMT References: <10128@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 41 ... unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >... NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST) writes: >> The big BIG diffeculty is in programming the damn 5505 chip! I thought >>when I bought my GS that I could get great stuff out of Basic. Donkey chips! > I think that is a VERY VERY VERY unfair complaint saying you want >to do things from BASIC! As it is true that one would need to use ML to use GS sound from AppleSoft BASIC, it can and has been done. A+, prior to the inCider takeover, printed a program which could generate 32 voice sound, using 1 simple waveform for all the voices. I remember taking that code and giving it more power. >For one thing, BASIC has remained virtually unchanged >since 1977. Even if Apple DID want to upgrade BASIC (yeah right), I THINK >it would be very difficult for them to do because of copyright agreements >with MicroSoft. Am I the only one who knew about GS BASIC? It was an actual BASIC for the IIgs, which I believe has been discontinued. >To do anything reasonably complicated on most computers, you have to >do it in assembly language or some high level language.. (other than BASIC). Yeah. Hmm, perhaps I should consider sending out BasicPaint II, total rewrite of the program BasicPaint from inCider magazine (prior to the takeover), allowing 256 colors per screen, and 4 screens on the desktop at once. Used a few ML routines, but most of it is coded in BASIC. >-- >/Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ >|WRITE TO ORIGIN ABOUT ULTIMA VI //e and IIGS! Mail me for addresses, & info. | >\ "Dammit Bev, is it you inside or is it the clown?" -IT by Stephen King / -- __ _____________ __ \ \_\ \__ __/ /_/ / How many Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots \greg@hoss.unl.edu/ does it take to change a lightbulb? \_\ \_\|_|/_/ /_/ "Lights... don't talk to me about lights."