Anachronaut
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Noise through a low pass that the modulation envelope shuts as the level falls, so the bright part is only at the front of it: a boom rather than a hiss. Noise because every other waveform here has a pitch, and a pitched bang is a note. The instrument is built at startup the way the tiles are, and a crash only says "this channel, this note". That is what the selector and value registers are for - a patch is twenty odd writes and a note is two - and it is the shape every sound after this one should take. CHANNEL THREE. There are four, and effects count down from the top so that music, if it ever arrives, can take nought and count up and the two never have to negotiate. This is also the first program to drive the sound device while also doing something else; the only other customer is the patch editor, whose whole job is the device. ---- A byte of envelope is not seconds ---- It is squared and scaled to four of them, so the decay first written here was 200 - which is two and a half seconds. Over the eight tenths of a second the pieces are in the air that is not a bang fading, it is the FRONT THIRD of one, and it both sounded and measured as a flat wash of noise. Ninety is about half a second and it fades to silence with time to spare. Two checks, each seen to fail on its own break. The first is against SILENCE - a landing in the same conditions makes no sound at all, so it is measuring the crash and not the machine humming - and the second is that it is louder in its first half than its second, which is the difference the decay was getting wrong.
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58 lines
1.3 KiB
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CosmOS
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> run
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nothing is loaded
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> dir
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greet.sbx 211
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hello.sbx 53
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Life.sbx 1396
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Snake.sbx 2164
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Keys.sbx 664
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Say.sbx 156
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Break.sbx 149
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Grid.sbx 571
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Press.sbx 872
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Mode.sbx 48
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Flip.sbx 173
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Sprite.sbx 442
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Depth.sbx 672
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Lander.sbx 8388
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Pad.sbx 264
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Crash.sbx 632
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vars.script 50
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blocks.script 343
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loops.script 272
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tune.sbx 306
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notes.txt 21
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Apps <dir>
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hi.script 121
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bad.script 45
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plain.script 24
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cross.script 280
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nonl.script 38
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outer.script 376
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inner.script 44
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loop.script 35
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29 files, 1 directory
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> load
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load what?
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> load nosuch.sbx
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no such file
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> load notes.txt
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not a program
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> load greet.sbx
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loaded, starting at 5000
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> run
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a program, loaded off a disk, running on the system that loaded it
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what should I call you? Anachronaut
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hello, Anachronaut. that is all I do.
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finished
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> run
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a program, loaded off a disk, running on the system that loaded it
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what should I call you? Claude
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hello, Claude. that is all I do.
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finished
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> exit
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halted
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Execution halted.
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[exit 0]
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