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From: jonh@tekgen.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Hires Joystk I/F
Message-ID: <1732@tekgen.TEK.COM>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 01:27:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 13 01:27:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 19:47:39 EDT
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Reply-To: jonh@tekgen.UUCP (Jon Howell)
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Keywords: COCO3 JOYSTICK


Another way to go about reading the BjorkBox is to obtain a little prog from
ColorVenture.  (Can I leak this, Eric?)  I have a copy I won.  Haven't gotten
to play with it--don't have a bjorkbox.  CV reports that it will change JOYSTK
inputs to a range of 0-639.  Believe 'tis scheduled for December release.  I
suggest we poke & prod CV for what else they've got lined up--Pyramix is a
really hot game!  With some luck, I might write for them, but that remains
to be seen.

--Jon

Eric--CVRamdisk is neat, and the Print Spooler is efficient..best of all, they
cooperate well...I'm going to be doing a bunch of hacks on Bells & Whistles
soon, so I'll put 'em to the test.

All--I've managed to coax some really nifty sounding drums (bass+snare) out of
the CoCo, w/o any xtras!  BW2 from Jn 87 Rainbow is very powerful.  I achieved
bass drums by modifying the waveform code to include a random factor in the
sine wave section.  I have these values: 1st harmonic, 1x.  2nd harmonic: .5x
and then randomize the wave by 
20 pixels.  Makes for neat sound!  BTW--play in "p" mode (1Mhz) for lower
beats.  If this resembles rambling, but you are somehow interested, write..

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