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[HC] hypercard 1.2.5 & sounds
(Msg 1 of 2)
reverse iterator <druthelen@[redacted].com>
Sunday, 20-Feb-2011 15:36 GMT
The question: anybody has laying around hypercard 1.X compatible sounds suitable for "chiptune" music? I mean, sin/square/triangle/chord waveforms, that could be used with the "play" function. The goal is to do very simple NES/game-boy - style music.

If this waveform play would be available from a XFCN/XCMD that would be able to play _async_ on mac-SE hardware, that would be even better.

The target hardware is mac-SE/Plus, and hypercard 1.2.5.

== A bit of background ==

Hypercard 1.2.5 was my first learning programming environment, and could say I owe it my comp-sci programming career. It has always been in a warm place in my memories and always stood out as a very coherent software with an elegant design (a big cheer to Bill Atkinson!)

Recently, I was able to make it work again, in mini vMac (both on windows and osx), using my old mac plus ROM and HC1.2.5 floppies.

I would plan to build some kind of multimedia sound+display that would fit on a floppy, would build procedural graphics with very simple 3D wireframe effects, etc. Some kind of homage to the power of the built-in tools and effects. (I have experience in this domain, but mostly for the latest 3D graphic hardware with pixel shaders and all) The goal is to present it in a local retro-computing convention later this year.

If anybody would want to join such a project (pixel artist? music composer? hypertalk junkie? I'm open to contacts)
[HC] hypercard 1.2.5 & sounds
(Msg 2 of 2)
Rebecca Bettencourt <beckiergb@[redacted].com>
Sunday, 20-Feb-2011 23:54 GMT
You might be able to find something in HyperCard Musical Instruments:
http://www.kreativekorp.com/swdownload/wildfire/hcmusicalinstruments.sit

If that's not sufficient, I have a collection of even more sounds
lying around my external hd I could send to you.

Also, if you're looking into doing 3D graphics:
http://www.kreativekorp.com/swdownload/wildfire/HyperGL.sit

-- Rebecca Bettencourt


On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:36 AM, reverse_iterator <druthelen@[redacted].com wrote:
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> The question: anybody has laying around hypercard 1.X compatible sounds suitable for "chiptune" music? I mean, sin/square/triangle/chord waveforms, that could be used with the "play" function. The goal is to do very simple NES/game-boy - style music.
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> If this waveform play would be available from a XFCN/XCMD that would be able to play _async_ on mac-SE hardware, that would be even better.
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> The target hardware is mac-SE/Plus, and hypercard 1.2.5.
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> == A bit of background ==
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> Hypercard 1.2.5 was my first learning programming environment, and could say I owe it my comp-sci programming career. It has always been in a warm place in my memories and always stood out as a very coherent software with an elegant design (a big cheer to Bill Atkinson!)
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> Recently, I was able to make it work again, in mini vMac (both on windows and osx), using my old mac plus ROM and HC1.2.5 floppies.
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> I would plan to build some kind of multimedia sound+display that would fit on a floppy, would build procedural graphics with very simple 3D wireframe effects, etc. Some kind of homage to the power of the built-in tools and effects. (I have experience in this domain, but mostly for the latest 3D graphic hardware with pixel shaders and all) The goal is to present it in a local retro-computing convention later this year.
>
> If anybody would want to join such a project (pixel artist? music composer? hypertalk junkie? I'm open to contacts)
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