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Article #14399

Re: Musical Packages for PCs

#14399
From: Jim Greenlee
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1986 00:04
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In article <637@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>
>I would appreciate it if Mr. Wavrik, or anyone else with
>access to it, would compare the effect of this version of the William-Tell
>overture with the package Mr. Wavrik mentions, as well as with the little
>package I posted last week and let me know if the effect of the "Music
>Construction Set" is essentially like that of Piano-Man (as illustrated
>in willtell.com) or like my system.
>

For anyone who is interested, "willtell.com" as posted will only operate
successfully on computers running at (or near) 4.77 MHz. To patch the 
program for higher speed machines, the following addresses must be 
altered (I'll give the commands in Debug format):

-e0152,f4,01
-e016f,f4,01

This works OK on my machine at home (AT&T 6300 with a V30 at 8MHz). For
those running at different clock speeds, a simple formula will give you
good numbers to substitute if the above don't work.

Compute [ 300*(your processor speed)/4.77 ] and convert this number to 
hexadecimal. Substitute this hex value for the "f4,01" above (remember
to swap low and high bytes). You may have to tweak the values a little
to get it right, but this should get you in the ballpark.

"Willtell" is a nice piece of work, but it would be nice to have 
the adaptability and flexibilty of VMUSIC for the higher speed machines.

                                             Jim Greenlee
-- 
The Shadow
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: jkg@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee)
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Subject: Re: Musical Packages for PCs
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Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 19:04:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 10 19:04:14 1986
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