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  • Interrupt routineI have been trying to create an interrupt routine for playing AY music in the background but cant seem to get anything working. I have a music rou…

    ... been trying to create an interrupt routine for playing AY music ... /> Does the bank switching mean interrupt routines cant be used?
    daveysludge daveysludge November 2016 Development
  • In-game AY music and sound effectsI'm currently working on various aspects of a Spectrum game and thinking now about the sound side of things. I know you can use a utility like Vortex…

    ... played in-game via an interrupt routine. I'm thinking about ... I restricted to using the beeper via an out(254) routine ...
    adrian_singh adrian_singh March 2017 Development
  • Making sound using the BEEPER in AssemblyI had a look at the the documentation but it doesn't make sense to me. To make music just the beeper all I have to do is send ones and zeros to one o…

    ... . To make music just the beeper all I have to do ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 July 2018 Assembler
  • ZEsarUX-7.1 BETAHi I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX 7.1 BETA version here: https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases/tag/7.1-10082017 Changelog of this …

    ... /MB02 DMA emulation
    Added Beeper Piano Menu
    Added new ... /> **INTFIRED: returns 1 when an interrupt has been generated
    * breakpoints ...
    chernandezba chernandezba August 2018 Emulators
  • ZEsarUX-7.1Hi! There’s a new stable version of ZEsarUX, version 7.1! The next 24th of September it will be 5 years old :) So this is a special anniversary…

    ... on slow machines
    Added Beeper Piano Menu
    Added new ... /> **INTFIRED: returns 1 when an interrupt has been generated

    chernandezba chernandezba September 2018 Emulators
  • +3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…

    ... a culprit, which restored the beeper sounds.. however, I still have ... understand how the plus 3 beeper noises are made, or why ...
    colourclash colourclash May 2019 Hardware
  • The best 100 Beeper and AY commercial games tunes list - where it is?There used to be separate lists for the best beeper and the best Ay commercial games tunes, no homebrews. 100 games listed in each list, both were on…

    ... separate lists for the best beeper and the best Ay commercial ...
    Spectrum48K Spectrum48K February 2020 Games
  • New Beeper engine wip demoI've made a new lightweight beeper engine, which should be able to be played in an ISR for in-game 2 channel music with simple drum clicks/pops. Simi…

    ... 've made a new lightweight beeper engine, which should be able ... basically cut Shiru's QChan beeper engine in half and made ...
    FrankT FrankT December 2020 Development
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    ... beeper routine (tm) into a loop and have the 50 hertz interrupt ...
    Joffa Smifff Joffa Smifff November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Newer name of the gameI can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or…

    ... of the engine is the interrupt for the timing and sound ... part can play 2 channel beeper music or sounds during the ...
    edy.wss edy.wss February 2003 Games
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... you're talking about beeper music you're talking ... about beeper music and you can ... have an interupt driven beeper routine. You said nothing ... be doable in an interrupt driven manner: express tone ... period of time in each interrupt.[/quote]

    ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... was able to do with beeper... ;) I am sure - even if ... no longer use the 50Hz interrupt to make changes to the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…

    ... to work with the frame interrupt (i.e the raster line ... - change registers a lot.
    Beeper - change port FE a lot ... /> [quote](and 4) perhaps also interrupt handling in general?)[/quote]
    cyborg cyborg July 2004 Development
  • Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…

    ... game loop taking the frame interrupt in consideration. For a Coupe ... - change registers a lot.
    Beeper - change port FE a lot ... /> [quote](and 4) perhaps also interrupt handling in general?)[/quote]
    ekoman ekoman July 2004 Development
  • Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…

    ... game loop taking the frame interrupt in consideration.[/quote]


    Beeper = subroutine.

    [quote]
    cyborg cyborg July 2004 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... be used to excite the beeper (bit 4), the MIC connection ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • .AY - how to create themI wonder - how would I go about creating an .AY file (music) from a game? I understand that once I have all the necessary pieces (the player, the mus…

    ... /> 2) no, beeper are not simply, it uses interrupt routines too
    3)as you noticed most of beeper ... lucky, you are in main beeper loop.
    4) have a ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • .AY - how to create themI wonder - how would I go about creating an .AY file (music) from a game? I understand that once I have all the necessary pieces (the player, the mus…

    ... /> 2) no, beeper are not simply, it uses interrupt routines too
    3)as you noticed most of beeper ... lucky, you are in main beeper loop.
    4) have a ...
    pepak pepak August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …

    ... tape loading routines, the beeper and sometimes the print screen ... very simple. Then the interrupt service routine for up to ... something for really fast realtime interrupt response... who knows.
    ... jumped to following an NMI interrupt. The hw would make ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?

    ... approach. Unless you're adding beeper support (probably not worth it ... across all formats with an interrupt-driven player, although it wouldn ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Development
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... 1.76475MHz and the interrupt rate is 60Hz. For ... are written assuming a 50Hz interrupt -- when played on a ... throw away each sixth interrupt to reduce tempo and ... the AY chip like the BEEPer -- it is very cpu ... does not include the interrupt routine that must call ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... .

    [b]interrupt.h, interrupt.c[/b]

    ... code) or aowen's beeper stuff and will be ... void scroll_isr(void) // an interrupt routine called every 1/50s ... special "return_nc" as explained under "interrupt.c" above.

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... (this will cope with Interrupt, Keyboard scan and Beeper routines).

    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…

    [QUOTE=aowen;311217]Because interrupt driven beeper music is a pain to do.[/QUOTE]

    It's not that hard to do; it just sounds crap.
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2008 Development
  • In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…

    ... 's quite a lot of beeper music that use interrupts actually ... still reckon that in-game interrupt beeper music is always going to ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2008 Development
  • In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…

    ... to service it every other interrupt (e.g. 25 times a ... that using interrupts to service beeper music is a waste of ... drawing the main screen. The beeper/AY updates can kick in ... is directly handled inside the interrupt service routine or simply part ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2008 Development
  • BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …

    ... using an interrupt driven Music Box tune on the Beeper.[/QUOTE]
    interrupt driven AY chip tune I ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Development
  • Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…

    ... INTERRUPTS...
    ;****************************************

    Interrupt: push af

    ld ... br /> ; IN GAME BEEPER ROUTINES...
    ;****************************************

    Beeper: ld hl,(FXPointer ...
    frobush frobush January 2009 Games
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