Morse

[Kakemoms]

The most silly program yet: Morse code keyboard

Use the joystick fire button to tap Morse codes (as a real Morse coder) and see the output on the screen.

It supports all letters but no numbers. Up to 4 segment morse codes. A half second space gives a space. 800Hz sound as real Morse codes (on HAM radio).

Can be used as a trainer or just for fun. I made it to connect a real morse key coder through the joystick port. Nice as entertainment for kids on a Makerfaire.

It's not strick on the space thing as even short spaces in real Morse are to be accounted for as space between letters. Tree such spaces are spaces in words and seven such spaces are spaces between words.. Too complicated for me, so half a second = one space here.

For 8K+ expansion:

morse.zip

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Unexpanded or 3K:

morse3k.zip

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[orion70]

@Kakemoms - My grand-daddy, who was a Morse code operator and telephone line technician in the army during ww2, tried to teach me the code when I was a child, with no success. I'll try with the VIC so thanks for this

(you should modify your Announcements post and include a link to this discussion )


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[taborj]

Very cool. Last year I attempted to learn Morse, but I wasn't able to dedicate the time to it. I'll give this a shot.

[Kakemoms]

Very cool. Last year I attempted to learn Morse, but I wasn't able to dedicate the time to it. I'll give this a shot.

Now you can have another go with the morse "Challenge" game:

It looks popular at the local Makerfaire:

This Vic-20 is running the SuperVixen expansion with a VGA monitor. Nice way to test the SuperVixen.
If you want to make your own Morse Key Coder to connect to the joystick port (as seen in the picture), I have drawings for that.

Download

upchallenge.zip

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The game loads into BLK5 and autostarts at reset (so you need memory there). It then copies itself into $1200, so you also need memory at BLK1.. I'll upload some other versions without autostart later.

Edit:
8K+ version:

challenge.zip

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Unexpanded:

challenge0k.zip

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Control the morse with a joystick fire button. Use to learn Morse or just for fun.
The game is in basic while the morse code translator is in assembly (running as interrupt). So you can use the assembly program to include in your own morse game as well:
Assembly Unexpanded:

morse0k.zip

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[taborj]

Excellent, I'll definitely check this out!!