Music and Sound

[MrSterlingBS]

Hello,

I programmed a game, but the music and the sound effects are still missing. I'm also looking for a good interrupt player.

Can someone support me with this?

Best regards
Sven

[furroy]

I just went through this myself and Vic-Tracker 2.0 seemed to be the best bet all around. It will generate DASM files for an irq player. I use KickAsm, so it was a little painful converting it from DASM but doable!

http://www.kahlin.net/daniel/victracker/

[MrSterlingBS]

Thanks, some of the sound files are very cool.
I will ask the composers for the rights.

There is another page i have found.

http://www.boray.se/commodore/iecplay2/

[MrSterlingBS]

I just went through this myself and Vic-Tracker 2.0 seemed to be the best bet all around. It will generate DASM files for an irq player. I use KickAsm, so it was a little painful converting it from DASM but doable!

http://www.kahlin.net/daniel/victracker/

In fact, digging through the code is a bit tiring. I use VASM or CBM prg Studio.Iisn't there something along these lines?

[furroy]

i know, they are all varying degrees of user friendly and usually spit out a .prg file at some point. but they were all pretty user hostile if you wanted to try to play the music inside your own prg file.

[chysn]

I think, for VIC-20 at least, there's not much use in using a drop-in solution for music and sound. Memory is so tight that it almost always needs to be bespoke code to support the needs of the project. Otherwise you have extraneous and/or missing features which put unnecessary pressure on available memory.

My sound effects player has been somewhat stable from project to project. It's a lightweight and flexible shift-register based player, with each sound effect described by two bytes. But my music players are always entirely re-written for each project because the features I need are so different each time.

If you'd like to review my effects player for ideas, I think the most mature version of it is in Dungeon of Dance

https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-DungeonO ... ungeon.asm

lines 1439-1490, with data table and documentation at 1599. It's appropriate for retro 8-bit arcade-type effects.

You're welcome to check out the music players in this and other games in my GitHub account. But like I said, these are all over the map.

[MrSterlingBS]

Thank you very much.