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• Evade Theme

  fid • 01/03/2019 at 05:14 • 0 comments

  This is the music I have come up with for the Evade game's splash screen.  It might me a little bit too fast.  It is quite repetitive.  It comes in at 1313 bytes.  I am going to have to pepper the code with some keyboard input checks to provide a break out of the splash screen during the playing of the music.  Otherwise you have to listen to it until the song starts over.  That is not too long, but I know how things can get.  I want you to be able to get on with the game as soon as you would like.

  10 rem Evade Theme
  15 for i = 0 to 1
  20 tune 55,0,0,600
  30 tune 54,0,0,100
  40 tune 55,0,0,100
  50 tune 57,0,0,600
  60 tune 55,0,0,100
  70 tune 57,0,0,100
  80 tune 59,0,0,200
  90 tune 57,0,0,200
  100 tune 55,0,0,200
  110 tune 59,0,0,200
  120 tune 57,0,0,200
  130 tune 55,0,0,200
  140 tune 54,0,0,200
  150 tune 57,0,0,200
  155 next i
  160 tune 43,38,0,190
  165 tune 0,0,0,10
  170 tune 43,38,0,200
  180 tune 0,0,0,200
  190 tune 43,38,0,90
  195 tune 0,0,0,10
  200 tune 43,38,0,100
  210 tune 43,38,0,190
  215 tune 0,0,0,10
  220 tune 43,38,0,200
  230 tune 0,0,0,200
  240 tune 43,38,0,90
  245 tune 0,0,0,10
  250 tune 43,38,0,100
  260 tune 47,0,0,200
  270 tune 45,0,0,200
  280 tune 43,0,0,200
  290 tune 43,38,0,90
  295 tune 0,0,0,10
  300 tune 43,38,0,90
  305 tune 0,0,0,10
  310 tune 43,38,0,190
  315 tune 0,0,0,10
  320 tune 43,38,0,200
  330 tune 0,0,0,400
  335 for i = 0 to 1
  340 tune 43,38,55,190
  345 tune 0,0,0,10
  350 tune 43,38,55,200
  360 tune 0,0,55,200
  370 tune 43,38,54,100
  380 tune 43,38,55,100
  390 tune 43,38,57,200
  400 tune 43,38,57,200
  410 tune 0,0,57,200
  420 tune 43,38,55,100
  430 tune 43,38,57,100
  440 tune 47,0,59,200
  450 tune 45,0,57,200
  460 tune 43,0,55,200
  470 tune 43,38,59,90
  475 tune 0,0,0,10
  480 tune 43,38,59,100
  490 tune 43,38,57,200
  500 tune 43,38,55,200
  510 tune 0,0,54,190
  515 tune 0,0,0,10
  520 tune 0,0,54,200
  530 next i
  700 goto 15
  

  Copy it.  Load it into your 2018 Supercon Badge and run it.

  Please let me know what you think.  I am going to add it to the main part of the program in a few days so it will blend in with the splash screen.  

  The lines 160 through 330 are supposed to be like percussion.  The limitation of the tune command gave way to what you hear.  I did try other things and like this best.

  As for the tempo, I am thinking about 1/4 slower or, perhaps 1/3 slower.  It was not what I figured it would be when I wrote it originally at twice the tempo.  That was way too fast.

• Cannon not reloading quickly enough.

  fid • 12/27/2018 at 13:42 • 0 comments

  One of the suggestions I received from @Ian Weber and my kid (his girlfriend) is that the ion cannon was not loading fast enough.  Further testing was that the cannon is now done to 45 from 100.  Line 3310 has the variable y as the timing for the cannon to recharge after firing.

  Speeding up the cannon to fire caused a need for the enemy ship to seem a little slow in its erratic evasive movements.  I adjusted that to 35, line 3330.

  If you have played the game on your 2018 SuperCon Badge you should have noticed that the LED glows green to show you that the cannon is charged up.  When you press the fire button (space) you will see that the green light goes out as the HUD shows in the upper right corner that the cannon is now recharging.  If you make a hit on the enemy ship you might see that the LED flashes red for a brief period of time.  Sometimes I don't even notice it as I am too focused on the display screen.

  Still working on the music and the instructions page.

• File upload, but still beta

  fid • 12/22/2018 at 15:56 • 0 comments

  I've uploaded the current Evade game text file.  It plays fine.  I still have to add the music which I started composing last night.  Figuring out how to break out of the music to get to the instructions page is proving to be a little challenge.  It may take a bunch of gosub calls or make the song shorter and repeating. 

  I also discovered that I don't like the instructions page which is right after the the splash screen.   I am thinking ASCII at the top would look OK.

  Let me know what you think about this game?  If you have hints about being able to break out of the music, I am all ears.  :-D

• Splash Screen music

  fid • 12/22/2018 at 02:08 • 0 comments

  I think all I have to do is compose the Splash Screen Music.  The the code will be done.  :-D

• Splash Screen drawn

  fid • 12/22/2018 at 01:35 • 0 comments

  I spent some time creating a nice looking splash screen.  I may add to it a little bit.  I tried using red as the lettering and it doesn't show up bright enough for me.  Perhaps my batteries are getting low. Here is code for the splash screen.  It says to << press space >> at the bottom of the screen.  Well, that will only clear the screen and get you a prompt.  Look at the code to see what I have done here.  Copy it.  Edit it for your own projects.  If you have suggestions on how to make it smaller, I am all ears.

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• Bytes Free

  fid • 12/18/2018 at 23:45 • 0 comments

  I just checked the bytes free as it stands right now and there are 8923 B free.  <<12/18>>

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