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PeteCotton

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Posted: 03:27pm 11 Oct 2020      

  TweakerRay said  
  thwill said  @TweakerRay, love the soundtrack, very appropriate.

It's a damn shame that using PLAY MP3 to play in the background and PLAY SOUND for FX in the foreground seems to be incompatible:
Error in line xx: Sound output in use


@matherp, any advice ?

@PeteCotton, for the "Welcome Tape" is there any chance you could redo the logo with the name "Guardian" or some other non (c) infringing title of your choice?

Best wishes,

Tom


@Tom, thanks... Yeah If the soundtrack is only on the titlescreen most people only would hear the first bars and play the game and get the same 4 bars of the beginning... and i hoped that the score could be played in the background... that would be neat. But I guess because mp3 will eat up a lot of cpu power it's not possible ? Maybe @matherp could tell if it's possible... otherwise mp3 playback is not really usefull if it eats so much cpupower that you can't play other sounds...


I'm pretty sure it's because of the way I'm doing files. I believe we can do a MOD file with tunes and sound effects together - but that's all a black art to me.
TweakerRay

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Posted: 05:50pm 11 Oct 2020      

  PeteCotton said  

I'm pretty sure it's because of the way I'm doing files. I believe we can do a MOD file with tunes and sound effects together - but that's all a black art to me.


yeah . but with mod files you will be limited again...
And I mean I started on a amiga500 with mod and tracker stuff... you are very limited in the sound...

I mean a proper mp3 together with soundeffects would be awesome but I don't know if that is possible... maybe in future updates...
untill then the mp3 just can play at the title screen...
thwill

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Posted: 03:43pm 15 Oct 2020      

  PeteCotton said  Absolutely. No problem. It's Canadian Thanksgiving today though, so probably won't get around to it until I sober up!


Still drunk ?

   

No hurry, probably going to wait for Peter to officially "wrap" firmware 5.06.06 before I release a new version of the "Welcome Tape" anyway.

Tom
PeteCotton

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Posted: 05:01pm 15 Oct 2020      

  thwill said  
  PeteCotton said  Absolutely. No problem. It's Canadian Thanksgiving today though, so probably won't get around to it until I sober up!


Still drunk ?

   

No hurry, probably going to wait for Peter to officially "wrap" firmware 5.06.06 before I release a new version of the "Welcome Tape" anyway.

Tom

There have been a few bouts of soberiety, but unfortunately they've been filled with my day job   Hopefully this weekend I'll get time to sit down and catch up with the CMM2.
JimDrew
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Posted: 08:55pm 15 Oct 2020      

This is neat.  Stargate is my all time favorite arcade game.
PeteCotton

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Posted: 10:39pm 15 Oct 2020      

  JimDrew said  This is neat.  Stargate is my all time favorite arcade game.


Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
PeteCotton

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Posted: 07:38pm 16 Oct 2020      

Tom, Here you go... Defender, renamed as Guardian.

Thanks everyone for all the words of encouragement. They make a big difference.


Guardian.zip
Edited 2020-10-17 05:39 by PeteCotton
thwill

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Posted: 08:04pm 18 Oct 2020      

Thanks Pete, hopefully get Welcome Tape v0.5 pushed out of the door over the next couple of days.

Tom
TweakerRay

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Posted: 08:43am 19 Oct 2020      

So I see you prefer the mor SID like tune more ?
Is this the final selection ? And nice new name "Guardain"
I will soon load both versions of the soundtrack to my bandcamppage:
http://tweakerray.bandcamp.com

So people can download them for FREE in 320Kbit and wav
for higher audiophile enjoyment ;-)

Cheers TweakerRay
thwill

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Posted: 08:46am 19 Oct 2020      

  TweakerRay said  So I see you prefer the mor SID like tune more ?


Oh hold on, are there two variants of the tune ?
Can I have the correct variant in 160kb fidelity for the "Welcome Tape" ?

Best wishes,

Tom
TweakerRay

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Posted: 09:30am 19 Oct 2020      



I would use this as Cover if that is okay with all ?
TweakerRay

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Posted: 10:05am 19 Oct 2020      

  thwill said  
  TweakerRay said  So I see you prefer the mor SID like tune more ?


Oh hold on, are there two variants of the tune ?
Can I have the correct variant in 160kb fidelity for the "Welcome Tape" ?

Best wishes,

Tom


The

The 160kb Version in the last Guardian.Zip is correct 160kbit Version.
TweakerRay

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Posted: 08:35pm 19 Oct 2020      

Hi ! Here is the official Hi-DEF Music for the game ;-)
And some more tunes for your enjoyment...

https://tweakerray.bandcamp.com/album/videogame-ep-free-download


Cheers TweakerRay
PeteCotton

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Posted: 09:13pm 20 Oct 2020      

  TweakerRay said  

I would use this as Cover if that is okay with all ?


Looks good to me!