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You're right about the different versions (there would only be one versioin of WAV generator, just an option... But two versions of the decoder and thus WAV compatibility :? ). I've just had an idea. I would like to try to set up a kind of bank system . Today the decoder code is dividied like this: ...

Ok, even by suppressing the dictionaries, I can't make a slower version for both ROM1.0/1.1 (I'd need about 42 more bytes which is wayyyyy to much to even try optimizing). So now I will try to make a (still slower) ROM 1.0 only option. User will have to choose for which ROM he generates the signal (...

Hi there, I've been trying to see how to make a ROM 1.0 version. Haven't cheked byte for byte so far (I find it quite messy trying to code for 2 different ROM), but I'm afraid there's too many routines that would require being re-coded, to fit in the page 1 space, even by removing a part of Novaligh...

Well done. That was fast!

Ok, the generator seems to be working
Time for me to compile for DOS 16 and 32 bits, clean the source code a bit, translate the comments, write the readme files and so on... But be warned, I think the C code will remain a bit messy, I'm too tired to go much further now

Managed to convert a multipart program with the PC converter! No switches yet, and converter crahsing with The Hellion that doesn't have standard headers... Might not be easy but I'd like to investigate and prevent that (TAP2CD doesn't crash with it, even if the WAV file is useless). Nice job, mult...

Don't spend too much time on more optimizations, I'm now trying to finish a 1st decent version ;) Managed to convert a multipart program with the PC converter! No switches yet, and converter crahsing with The Hellion that doesn't have standard headers... Might not be easy but I'd like to investigate...

Program now runs in page 1.
Currently re-writing the WAV generator, heavily borrowing from TAP2CD source code, again, because it was already based on it

Hehe, I think I tried using RTS, but it crashed... IIRC the return address wasn't exactly right compared to RTI, it came back in the middle of an instruction? Just tested using Euphoric, and it loads things, but not what was expected ;) Actually if the loop was in 0162, the interrupt RTS goes back t...

Wow, thanks for all this ;) Interesting variants, I'll have to read again but I'm not sure it can apply at Novalight. I have done so many variants and changes yesterday that I'm a bit lost! I should have posted the whole code: as you will notice, the infinite loop is used at several places (5 times ...

Thanks guys. I'll have to set the loader in page 1 now, test it again, and write a decent WAV generator. With my rotten C memories, don't hold your breath ;) I think by default for multipart programs, the loader will be loaded again for each part (holding the name of the following high-speed program...

Thanks! Well, it's just me having fun, pushing Fabrice's wonderful tools to the limits :wink: You probably won't notice any change with Xenon: it changes (without loader) from 11.38 seconds to 10.80. That's half a second faster, but at such short loading speed, doing significant progress becomes com...

Well, how I felt about the universe of the game isn't really important. It is just an opinion among many others ;) I didn't help for the making of Tyrann 3 (sampling a sound for the demo is my only input :lol: )! I consider that if I wanted something that would have perfectly fitted my expectations,...

Victory! :D :D I'm saving a sample per byte ;) Two seem to almost work but a sinusoid is missed after a few hundred bytes, both on Euphoric and real machines, so I'll forget that (until an idea pops up to save more cycles ;) ) Another mystery : I noticed that with my "slow" Atmos, and only...

Regarding the universe, I never understood why it would not have been possible to expand on the original universe of Tyrann and Amnukor, they had very specific names for places, spells, classes, there was all these funny games of chances, etc... imo that was the perfect opportunity to expand their ...