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Hello,
I am a quite bad programmer concerning Z80 assembly language. I am making an adventure game. A friend of mine will make me a music with Arkos Tracker and I want to play it, in a amstrad CPC basic program. The example you give in the documentation explains how to get rid of the amstrad system, and to load very low in the memory, the assembly routine and the music. In fact I didn’t understand this documentation. Do you have any amstrad CPC dsk files to show it more directly ?In fact, my goal is to make a good introduction program for the game I am programming and my game uses mostly locomotive basic.
So I wanted to know if it is possible to play the music produced by arkos tracker with the locomotive basic still in memory. Or else, is it possible to play the music in a program that will restore the system after playing it and launch the basic program for my game ?
Ps : you can answer me in french if you want, english is not my mother tongue sacrebleu 😉
Hi,
Good suggestion. I’ve just made a tutorial about that:
Please tell me if it works fine for you. A “Basic_CPC.asm” is mentioned but it will only be included in the next release. The source code is given in the tutorial.
Thanks Targhan,
I’ll try that as soon as possible, if I don’t melt during this heat wave ! 😉Regards,
EricI’ve tried this example with the music “The last V8” included in Arkos Tracker 2.
I used WinApe and Caprice32, Retro Virtual Machine and Sugar box with no luck.I only got a note at the beginning and a few seconds later a low pitched sound and then nothing.
I will try another song to see if it’s only this one. I can’t try on a real CPC by now but nevertheless it would be annoying if only the people with a real CPC can enjoy it !
Regards.
Very usefull also for fast test on real CPC or emulator.
At first RASM couldn’t compile the BIN file, I had to remove org 16384 in the AKG source. I would like to have it also for the ZX spectrum +2 =]
Ps: The Intellivision have also the GI AY-3-8914
Arkos is the best chiptracker ever! So much joy with it.Thanks!
Why Rasm didn’t compile? I tested the prog as-is, and it works fine. Ah, maybe you exported the song with an address, which overlapped the snippet from the tutorial. I should add something about that in the tutorial.
> I would like to have it also for the ZX spectrum +2 =]
You mean a prog to load it from Basic? Well, I don’t know anything about ZX Spectrum Basic sadly, but if you find someone to create such snippet, I will glady integrate it :).I can make a screenshot of the AKG Export window (or any) if you want. Address is 4000. I just tried it again with your Hocus pocus tune (dat intro!) and there’s still that “org 16384” line
`; Hocus Pocus, AKG format, v1.0.
; Generated by Arkos Tracker 2.
org 16384
HocusPocus_Start
HocusPocus_DisarkByteRegionStart0
db “AT20”
HocusPocus_DisarkPointerRegionStart1I hoped somebody will add that snippet for ZX 😉 or a player, at least to test the sound on real harware. =]
No, this line is added because you asked the export to.
In AT2, File > Export > Export to AKG.
In the new window, at the bottom, there is “Encode to address”. If ticked, an ORG is generated. So untick it and all will be fine.>I hoped somebody will add that snippet for ZX 😉 or a player, at least to test the sound on real harware.
The testers are made for that, they work perfectly, I tested all of them. Now there is no Basic tester, that’s all. But on MSX, it’s very easy. Check the MSX tester, it is explained. The generated file can be loaded with the BLOAD”file”,R command.
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