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A score is written and a tune is what the machine reads

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The convention, at the user's asking, and it is the one this project
already has everywhere else: a .asm is written and a .sbx or a .bin is
what the machine loads. A .score and a .tune are the same pair one
subject along.

It is not only tidiness. I read the user's splash.tune as a compiled tune
yesterday, dumped its header, and got a tick of seven and a half million
cycles and ninety seven patches out of what was plainly a text file.
Different names make that a thing nobody has to notice.

AND THE SPLASH WAS SILENT ON THE DISK THAT MATTERS. The play disk mirrors
every .asm and puts every app, and nothing on it put a compiled tune - so
make run-cosmos and make run-voyager both booted a Lander that read
/splash.tune, did not find one, and held the logo in silence. Only the
test disk had it, because I had added it there and stopped.

The makefile now compiles Programs/Tunes/splash.score with TuneC and puts
the result on the disk, and the mirror's prerequisite list learned about
.score files so that changing the music rebuilds the disk. That is the
same failure the mirror was built for, in a file type the mirror did not
know about yet: tune.asm went into Examples once, the image was not
remade, and it was simply not there.

Measured on the real disk: music from 0.9 s to 9.6 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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## Writing A Tune: TuneC
```
./TuneC [-I <dir>] <tune> <output.tune>
./TuneC [-I <dir>] <tune.score> <output.tune>
```
Four voices on one clock. A tune names its instruments, writes sequences of notes and durations, and gives each voice an order list of sequence names - which is where repetition comes from, since a phrase played four times is written once and named four times.
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`#` is a directive and `;` is a comment, exactly as in SplitBit assembly and in the shell's scripts, and numbers are written the way the assembler writes them - `0d` and `0x`, and no bare numbers. One rule across the machine rather than a third dialect.
Patches come from `SoundPatch --blob`, which stays the only thing that understands what a soundThing patch means, and are looked for beside the tune and then on the `-I` path the way an include is.
A `.score` is written and a `.tune` is what the machine reads, the same way a `.asm` is written and a `.sbx` is loaded. Patches come from `SoundPatch --blob`, which stays the only thing that understands what a soundThing patch means, and are looked for beside the tune and then on the `-I` path the way an include is.
**What it refuses is everything the player cannot notice for itself.** The machine has no names, so it cannot say a sequence does not exist; it has no lengths, so it cannot say the voices will come apart four bars after the mistake; and a duration of nought is counted down to 255 and held, which sounds like a hang rather than an error. A voice with a part and no instrument is refused too, because by the time a tune is loaded, "never said" and "instrument nought" are the same byte.