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Music Demo
AuthorWoody
Filenamemusicdemo.tap
Year2008
Position98
FormatZX Spectrum 48K/128K
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DescriptionWoody's prolific CGC campaign continues onward throughout these twilight days of CSSCGC 2008. Meanwhile, we continue to speculate on just how many entries we can obtain by the end. This is still very much an unknown quantity, but it's always nice to see the submission of entries continuing unabated.

As for this title, it's not a game as such, so therefore is automatically admitted into the CGC as about another dozen previous entries or even more were not games either.

This program offers a selection of several popular speccy tunes for you to listen to.

The clever bit about this program is that it detects your hardware. So if you run it on a system with an AY chip (for example a ZX Spectrum 128K), then it will use the AY chip to play back the tunes.

Secondly, if no AY chip is detected then it will use the BEEPER. But, rather than using BEEP commands, it uses Woody's SOUND command which is a BASIC extension. In fact it is the SOUND command itself which detects whether you have an AY chip present or not.

So, if you want to hear the beeper output, make sure you are not using one of those emulators or settings which permits AY music even when emulating a ZX Spectrum 48K. Otherwise, you may find that you only hear the AY version.

I have placed this title in both the 48K and 128K crap game arcades so that both versions can be listened to at your convenience.

CommentsThis is only the lowest scoring of Woody's entries because it is not actually a game. However I nearly cacked myself with excitement at the prospect of this BASIC extension, providing a SOUND command which can use either the Beeper or the AY chip if available. Have an AY? Don't have an AY? That's fine, no-one cares. Or at least the SOUND command doesn't. Your ears may tell a different story. A great novelty for the CGC and it is nice that pre-128K owners are still cared about. It is 2009, time to upgrade to 128K yet? No, thanks to Woody we are rubberkeys fanatics till we die hahaha.... Correction: It isn't the lowest scoring of Woody's entries now, as Dumb Miner is lower than this one. I forgot to change this on the 2nd pass of judging. (doh!)


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