Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
BNig wrote: Hi Devin, Hi Mark, thanks for looking into this. So it appears that the fact that after setting the beeploudness to 100 it is far to low for MacOS 10 and one starts to hear anything above about 650 and then up to 16777472. Since setting the beeploudness to -1 makes an unhealthy n

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-13 Thread BNig
50% like this: 'set the beepLoudness to 16777472/2'. Devin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/My-BBC-Master---getting-Beeped-off.-tp22474643p22507471.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-13 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On 3/11/09, Malte Brill wrote: ... There are quite a few opensauce libs around ... My favorite kind of cooking: everyone gets to add an ingredient! :-) Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-13 Thread Devin Asay
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Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bernd, Yes, exactly the same here (config + effects). -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Dutch forum: http://runrev.info/rrforum Snapper Screen Recorder is now available for Windows! Download

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-13 Thread BNig
ousehold (4) can I raise a squeak from BEEP; nor from the 5 PCs >> running Ubuntu variants. > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > sub

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Randy Hengst
Hello Richmond, I haven't followed every email of this strand, but after a quick check I didn't see this mentioned. I apologize if I missed it or am just stating the obvious. If I understand what you said (see below...), you don't hear beep on your Macs at all in Rev I use 2.8.1 mos

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Bill Marriott
SparkOut, > One drawback in particular is that with the internal sound set, then the > beep will sound even if the user's sound settings are set to mute. That > can > be a very unwanted effect. Or the exact wanted effect. The issue is that beep is just a beep and was not intended to be a magni

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Judy Perry
Bill, Confirmed here that "beep" beeps on Rev 3.0.0 and intel-based MacOS 10.5.5. The pitch bending, however, does not occur (that is, "set the beepPitch to 440" does nothing). Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Judy Perry wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:38

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Judy Perry
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: > Richmond, > > I should have known better than to respond :) But insofar as the use-list > is > a "knowledge base" I thought I would add in this helpful command that had > been overlooked to the data stream. > > I do not disagree at all with

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread SparkOut
visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/My-BBC-Master---getting-Beeped-off.-tp22431886p22477127.html Sent from the R

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread SparkOut
visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/My-BBC-Master---getting-Beeped-off.-tp22431886p22477126.html Sent from the R

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Richmond, I should have known better than to respond :) But insofar as the use-list is a "knowledge base" I thought I would add in this helpful command that had been overlooked to the data stream. I do not disagree at all with the idea that Rev should be able to play multiple audio streams sim

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Bill Marriott wrote: "I don't know if this has been answered (the thread diverged into political discourse), but in Rev 2.9 and later your script will give the expected results (at least on Windows) if you say, set the beepsound to internal set the beepPitch to 220 beep set the beepPitch to

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Luis
That looks interesting, although it doesn't look like it includes file playback. I'd opt for SDL then if it were to go the Open Source route (and includes 2D and 3D acceleration) as well as device input. Cheers, Luis. On 11 Mar 2009, at 18:37, Richmond Mathewson wrote: PortMedia is bo

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Luis
That's the one I was thinking of! Yep, both fmod and irrKlang have free as well as commercial licensing options. If someone did implement it as a Rev plugin, they'd need to cost it appropriately/cut a deal with the developers. A minor concern for me here is threading, although the timing co

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Luis
I had a need for audio, Rev had a 'problem' with it, wasn't 'there' (read 'usable'!) and canned the project. Cheers, Luis. On 11 Mar 2009, at 18:45, Judy Perry wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Judy wrote: But for how many years have we all bought, and CO

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Richmond, I don't know if this has been answered (the thread diverged into political discourse), but in Rev 2.9 and later your script will give the expected results (at least on Windows) if you say, set the beepsound to internal set the beepPitch to 220 beep set the beepPitch to 440 beep T

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-12 Thread René Micout
Judy, Confirmation : HC Play command : version 1.0 of HyperCard René Le 11 mars 09 à 23:16, Judy Perry a écrit : Richard wrote: "I don't mean to belabor the point, but I do think it's helpful to put to rest any suggestion of willful dishonesty here. The Win3.1+Win32s configuration may well

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread SparkOut
n > > NO NO NO NO NO! Please! Cut the dependency on QT. "Proper" audio should be > deliverable without dependence on QT. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/My-BBC-Master---getting-Beeped-off.-tp22462067p22467679.

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jim Lambert wrote: > If we want to smoothly play simultaneous sounds in Rev, couldn't > Trevor's super QTExternal be used to create (on the fly) multiple > track movies? > Let QT handle the sound channels. Works on Mac and windows. While some folks would prefer a non-QT solution, it sho

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Richard wrote: "I don't mean to belabor the point, but I do think it's helpful to put to rest any suggestion of willful dishonesty here. The Win3.1+Win32s configuration may well explain Raney's claim, and Jacque qualified hers appropriately with "maybe". We're all professionals here, just doing

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Lambert
Interesting thread. If we want to smoothly play simultaneous sounds in Rev, couldn't Trevor's super QTExternal be used to create (on the fly) multiple track movies? Let QT handle the sound channels. Works on Mac and windows. Jim Lambert ___ use-rev

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Malte Brill
Brian, > What would be the basic requirement that would get people off the > ground, without growing into a monster sound effect library? if you gave me methods to play .wav and .aif files (.ogg would be a plus) on at least 8 different channels with the ability to set the playloudness, pann

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off

2009-03-11 Thread Kurt Kaufman
"...I do agree that the sound people have been neglected. I think if Kurt could get his MIDI stack to interpret HC-sytle notation it would be a big hit. The support queue periodically gets questions about MIDI support, and I usually point them to Kurt's work, but having notation options in th

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Brian Yennie
2. To the degree that there is a need for this, there is a golden opportunity for a third-party solution which could capitalize on this right now with no need to wait for RunRev to finish their other priorities. Who among us recognizes this opportunity and wants to make some money? Money?

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond, Even though I absolutely have no personal need for unicode, my hand is up as well! Both of them, in fact ;-) Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > I want modern audio handling capacity! > > However, I would be perfectly satisf

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just to clarify, I'm not hearing anyone saying that it's definitely not possible on Windows today. --Really? 'Cause I could swear that I just heard Jacque say it maybe wasn't so easy... implying not so possible. "Maybe" is

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: on Ubuntu 8.04.2 NO BEEPS! Having had no beeps on Mac OS X or Ubuntu I wonder if the statement: "Sounds the system beep." isn't simply a lie? No. On Linux systems, the beep sound is sent directly to the internal sound card. I don't understand Linux well enough (ma

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
J. Landman Gay wrote: "so it won't throw an error when imported scripts use it." Ahah! So one gets a surprise later on when one tries to use the imported stack. Surely the point of throwing an error is so the programmer can see that something is wrong and/or won't work? sincerely, Richmond Ma

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I want modern audio handling capacity! However, I would be perfectly satisfied with the type of old-fashioned audio handling capacity available in HyperCard :) Come to think of it, I am fairly easy to please; I would be happy with a 4 sound channel system like that on the BBC Micro with ways of

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: "Somebody", somewhere has a particularly warped sense of humour: soundChannel "Has no effect and is included in Transcript for compatibility > with imported HyperCard stacks." what gets me is the word 'compatibility' as there is no compatibility; HyperCard stacks t

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
René: Hugs! Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:59 AM, René Micout wrote: > > Le 11 mars 09 à 19:45, Judy Perry a écrit : > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin < >> ambassa...@fourthworld.com >> >> --Not having modern audio handling capacity is likely cos

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread René Micout
Le 11 mars 09 à 19:45, Judy Perry a écrit : On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin --Not having modern audio handling capacity is likely costing the company users. Judy, I want modern audio handling capacity !!! René from Paris___ us

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
PortMedia is both Open Source and Cross-Platform: http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/ sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. _

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
"Somebody", somewhere has a particularly warped sense of humour: soundChannel "Has no effect and is included in Transcript for compatibility with imported HyperCard stacks." what gets me is the word 'compatibility' as there is no compatibility; HyperCard stacks that are imported that use sound

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
But Rev users will only hear it when and if they implement multiple sound channels ;-) Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > > > Anyway, if/when Rev gets up to speed, applause will be heard on several > channels. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Judy wrote: > >> But for how many years have we all bought, and CONTINUE to buy into the >> rationale that 'it can't be done on Windows"? >> > > Just to clarify, I'm not hearing anyone saying that it's definitely not > possible on Windows

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Luis wrote: > To be truly Multimedia (remember when PCs had that prefix...) I'd opt > for embedding something like irrKlang: http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/ Exactly my point. fmod is another one. There are dozens of these out there -- it's not like they're hard to find. I know the i

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy wrote: But for how many years have we all bought, and CONTINUE to buy into the rationale that 'it can't be done on Windows"? Just to clarify, I'm not hearing anyone saying that it's definitely not possible on Windows today. As for the past, modern Win systems are very, very different fr

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Okay, before this ventures into unknown territory, let me state what I think is hopefully obvious (and, for the love of g*d, don't be looking to my blog for any solutions anytime soon... mostly because I LIKE Rev and want more educators and game developers to adopt it... though, in the distant futu

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy wrote: I mean, really, it clearly exists in PC gaming. So does real-time 3D, isometric grid management, and scriptable opponent AI, but I can't blame RunRev for prioritizing these below features that would be used by a larger number of developers. For myself I'd sooner see isometric g

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
The funny thing about this, Richmond, is that latency is actually much MUCH MUCH! worse using layered player objects than faked sound channels in Shakobox, especially on lower-end machines! Ask Thierry again about the latency on his little game -- I remember: it was 3 to 4 SECONDS. That's WA

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Absolutely. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. And I don't sell anything! Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:17 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >> If you don't have a Mac, you're kinda out of luck AFAIK because while

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Right. I agree with both of you here. It clearly IS POSSIBLE. Profitable? Maybe for Adobe, maybe not so much for Rev (but then, what does that say about Rev?). Other than "he who makes me see purple and shall not be named again," I'm really not trying to diss anyone. But for how many years hav

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Scott and all, Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you don't have a Mac, you're kinda out of luck AFAIK because while there is a Windows version, I've never actually come across anyone who was able to make it work under Windows. So maybe it's harder than we think to implement sound channel

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Luis
To be truly Multimedia (remember when PCs had that prefix...) I'd opt for embedding something like irrKlang: http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/ There was another one, but the name escapes me. Cheers, Luis. On 11 Mar 2009, at 17:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, J. Landm

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
To quote myself [err . . . this reminds me of something else]: "It is, frankly, an easy, albeit tedious, piece of work to churn out individual sound files from some program that produces notes (c.f. Sibelius) for each semitone on the musical scale; and then import them into a stack, and then code

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
I mean, really, it clearly exists in PC gaming. It does. Even if I as a complete know-nothing can't figure out how to do it in Rev. Or in any language. Somebody, no, clearly, MULTIPLE somebodies out there in the game programming universe know how to make it happen. On a PC. "They" probably d

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you don't have a Mac, you're kinda out of luck AFAIK because while there is a Windows version, I've never actually come across anyone who was able to make it work under Windows. So maybe it's harder than we think to implement sound channels

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> If you don't have a Mac, you're kinda out of luck AFAIK because >> while there is a Windows version, I've never actually come across >> anyone who was able to make it work under Windows. > > So maybe it's harder than we think to implement sound channels on > Win

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
But clearly not impossible. As abcCode amply demonstrates. Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > So maybe it's harder than we think to implement sound channels on Windows > after all. > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyper

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Maybe... Or maybe Rebecca <> Scott Raney... Who knows? I know *I* don't. Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Judy Perry wrote: > >> Because Scott Raney had absolutely no use for it and lied that sound >> channels and/or HC-like musical scri

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Judy Perry wrote: Because Scott Raney had absolutely no use for it and lied that sound channels and/or HC-like musical scripting couldn't be supported under Windows IIRC. And then later, about Shakobox, you said: If you don't have a Mac, you're kinda out of luck AFAIK because > while there i

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Richard, Well what's not working isn't exactly not working, but somebody else noted that an extra space in the notestring makes Shakobox execute incorrectly (if you check earlier threads, what I was doing was retranscribing what I had done in HC notation for Bach's Tocatta & Fuge in D-Minor into S

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy wrote: > --You don't remember Shakobox? See Jacque's site. I'm not > being rude in this; you really don't remember Shakobox? Ah! Yes, everyone knows Shakobox. :) I just didn't know that was Rebecca's work. Nice. I'm so up to my armpits in productivity apps that I rarely get a chance

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I'd risk the same for you if ever anyone dared to question your > character while I'm around. You're my SoCal homey; I got yer back. :) > Someone would have to work very hard to prove to me that you've ever been > dishonest with me, and unti

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy wrote: And I for one don't think that it's because he wasn't smart enough to know otherwise. Perhaps you overestimate Dr. Raney. He's quite smart, but not flawlessly so. For example, there was one time that Scott told me a certain Mac API call didn't exist. I managed to turn it up i

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Luis wrote: That 'pitch' issue was a showstopper for one of my apps, was told the best way to do it is to go via MIDI. The Enhanced QT external was another option, but there's still no control for that. Trevor's external could address that is RunRev would provide an enhancement to their QT

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
René, My French is positively impoverished! :-( Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:57 AM, René Micout wrote: > Judy, > My english is poor ! > I think ALL Midi functions (or controls... best...) ce qui peut le plus, > peut le moins... > Bons souvenirs de Paris > René > >

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread René Micout
Judy, My english is poor ! I think ALL Midi functions (or controls... best...) ce qui peut le plus, peut le moins... Bons souvenirs de Paris René Le 11 mars 09 à 14:26, Judy Perry a écrit : Hi René, You said: "Reverb, Tremolo, Phasing, Chorus, ... What would be best is that Midi functions a

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Started wondering about BEEP, so tried a single button stack with the following code: on mouseUp set the beepLoudness to 50 beep end mouseUp made with: 1. Runtime Revolution 2.1.1 2. Metacard 2.5 on Ubuntu 8.04.2 NO BEEPS! Having had no beeps on Mac OS X or Ubuntu I wonder if the stateme

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond said: "My initial interest was in type 1; and remains so, as I feel it is the way that allows the most control via coding over PITCH, LOUDNESS and DURATION. The fact that Runtime Revolution appears to contain these capabilities seems to contradict the claim that Scott Rainey did not make

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Judy Perry
Hi René, You said: "Reverb, Tremolo, Phasing, Chorus, ... What would be best is that Midi functions are implemented into Revolution... Is this a dream?" To paraphrase a line from the movie Excalibur: 'A dream to some... a nightmare to others!' (Bwahahahhaha!!!) ;-) Sorry; couldn't resist. I

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Luis
Hiya, That 'pitch' issue was a showstopper for one of my apps, was told the best way to do it is to go via MIDI. The Enhanced QT external was another option, but there's still no control for that. Cheers, Luis. On 11 Mar 2009, at 09:47, Richmond Mathewson wrote: In view of what this t

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
In view of what this thread has brought to light I would like to point out that there seems to be some confusion between: 1. Playing Music in the way that Hypercard did: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/SW/HyperCard/TeachHC/hcsound/hcmusic.html 2. Playing Music by manipulating sound files imported into

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread René Micout
Hello Judy, Le 11 mars 09 à 04:09, Judy Perry a écrit : I like your stack! I really do. And while I know you have confidence that we can all be natively reading and writing MIDI-spec code in no time, I'm just WA too old for that to be happening anytime soon. ;-) With a little help

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
Richard, I know you have a deep respect for Raney. And I don't contend that he wasn't smart. I begrudgingly admit that even I think he was a freaking genius for reverse-engineering the HC file format and building a new development environment that superceded Hypertalk and made extensions of it p

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy Perry wrote: Because Scott Raney had absolutely no use for it and lied that sound channels and/or HC-like musical scripting couldn't be supported under Windows IIRC. The wording of whatever was said there may be important. Dr. Raney may have been infuriating at times, but I've never kno

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
Because Scott Raney had absolutely no use for it and lied that sound channels and/or HC-like musical scripting couldn't be supported under Windows IIRC. And I'm still plenty steamed about that. Modern PC games clearly support such a thing. Modern audio file formats clearly support such a thing (i

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
Sorry, dogs ran across my keyboard and prematurely sent my email. Rats! Too bad chihuahuas can't read... Okay, Kurt: I like your stack! I really do. And while I know you have confidence that we can all be natively reading and writing MIDI-spec code in no time, I'm just WA too old for that

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
You know, Kurt, I LIKE your stack.. but despite your claim that anytime soon I'll natively be reading and writing MIDI-spec code, I really think I'm WAAYY On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote: > ...It is Shakobox on Jacque's site developed by Rebecca Bettancourt that >> utiliz

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Kurt Kaufman
...It is Shakobox on Jacque's site developed by Rebecca Bettancourt that utilizes the QT library. If you've got a Mac, great. No sound channels but you kinda fake them. It requires an external player that has been opensourced and so, if you know RB, you might be able to fiddle with it fur

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Cracked open Hypercard with ResEdit and extracted the snd resource 'Harpsichord'; reset its codes: sfil and movr; and couldn't get any sound out of it at all. Those are very old sound file formats. They need to be converted to something else to be used these days. Th

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Judy Perry wrote: "Hopefully, *somebody* out there is working on a better solution (hint, hint)!" Cracked open Hypercard with ResEdit and extracted the snd resource 'Harpsichord'; reset its codes: sfil and movr; and couldn't get any sound out of it at all. Must have gone wrong somewhere between

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Judy Perry wrote: "As I had never heard of BBC master, with out without beeps" Wow, talk about deprived :) http://bbc.nvg.org/ On the "other side of the pond" we folk who speak English with funny accents and were fiddling with PCs in the late 80s were heavily into BBC computers (called that be

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond, As I had never neard of BBC master, with out without beeps, I didn't quite catch this thread when it first popped up. I don't think HC leveraged QT musical instrument library. It instead did something with a single sampled sound that was modified to produce the various pitches. It is S

My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
In the middle of the night I awoke with "beep" in my head; and so looked up: beepPitch getting all excited as I did so . . . popped this into a button: on mouseUp set the beepPitch to 220 beep set the beepPitch to 440 beep end mouseUp I don't know what the value of 'beep' is at all as heard