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Thanks Emkay, I wasn't aware of the other thread. It's obvious that the music emulation is better than it was in 3.1. I don't know if I am just prejudiced to the "real Hardware" but it just sounds better to me. Great composition by the way. After looping it for the past hour, I can't get it out of my head. ~zen

last reply. The same note sounded a lot better later on in in the piece whenit wasn't just held but yet played and relaease in a rythmic fashion with the bass/drum track. Could the held down note pause for a little when the bass line gets kicking and sart a samml bit later so it doesn't appear to be a leftover note from the previous melody. ~zen

Also, I didn't accurately count what measure it's in (maybe the 17th) after the intro - there is note/tone that is held while the drum/bass line starts kicking in that seems to clash. The note just seems like it was stuck from the previous melody and hangs there unitl that channel for the mid range melody is used again. Would it be possible to bring that notes pitch/volume down, distort it in some other way, or have it bounce between a few notes. I might be just sensitive to it because I used to have a casio keyboard that a certain key would get stuck while playing. And it reminded me of that. Over all I really like the composition, and I think it delivers th feel you were trying to convey. ---------------- Bear in mind, I am no composer. So take my advice with a grain of salt. I think I understand the effect you are going for, and it probably fits with what you were thinking. ~zen

IMO, It sounds even better on the actual hardware. I have an Atari 65XE with a 5 pin DIN to RCA cable plugged into a Commodore 1702 monitor. (mono audio). The base line has more punch and depth to it on the Hardware. The speed & (pitch for the higher notes) is pretty accurate between the emulator and my hardware. The effects and multiple voices seem to blend better on the actual Hardware. I don't know how to explain it, Except to say it sounds more like one piece of music, whereas the emulator the parts sound seperate of eachother. Does that make any sense? Note: To be fair, I had the emulator playing through my laptops internal speakers and then a pair of stereo speakers, No extra equalization or subwoofer. Perhaps I could tweak my emulator sound settings. When I coupled the Audio form the hardware to my PC speakers it truly sounded awesome. Also playing around, I timed the emulator to run a few bars behind the hardware, and it sounded really interesting. The new emulator is definately in tune with the hardware.

Emkay do you have a sample of city limits? ------- I'm glad you emphasized using version 4of the emulator. I figured I had the latest release (3.1) and played your tune. I began to worry that you ate some bad shrooms. I never stayed on the news page long enough to see the Beta realeases. Wow! what an improvement. And my windows redraw is 100 x's better. Thanks! Now the music sounds cool. ~ZEN

analmux, Any update information? ~zen

I'm really starting to like this game. But, Sometimes I loose a life and I don't understand why. The counter isn't at 0, I don't see anything hit my line, It seems to happen when I am pressing the button to back up. I can't figure it out. (finally got to level 6). Highscore so far 59570 Pic Coming soon. ~zen

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/sweat/ I didn't know these tools made it outside Atari. A bit antiquated but still fun to play around with. ~zen

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bit...ts/hotzbox.html Has anyone here ever used this? Zen

From the WEB ~zen

SuperPsycho & mock, I'll try to get over there today or Monday. (They are in the basement of the Middle School). I should be able to get both of your requests. ~zen

I am a Network Systems Technician For a public school district. We have literally 30 working Apple II, Apple IIc, AppleIIe, Apple IIgs's that the district will have to pay to get rid of. I'd guess that there is another 30-40 that aren't complete (broken, missing keys, but still have the boards and guts in em). Also have numerous floppy drives cables, printers (not sure if they work) etc... I had setup one of the IIgs's and it worked fine. I'd try to save them if I had room to store them. They are heavy, but if someone is really interested in one, I could catalog what's there, and you can have it for the price of shipping. I even have some software, books, manuals for them. I have a box of 5 1/4's that I use for the Atari, they mainly have Cavity Busters, Five Star Forecast, Gm Sunraycer on them. I wish I knew what happened to the Commodore 64 lab???? (I attended this shool district) ~zen

I like some of those mods, but I'm not crazy about all the LED's (I guess it depends on what one finds useful). I don't really care for the labeling job. I guess it all depends on when the mods were done. If I were to do something like that now, I would probably get a small color LCD display kit - driven by a basic stamp or PIC, rather than all the LED's poking out. ~zen

http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft.php?men...&btn_sauver.y=6 I haven't tried any of them though, So I can't sya how good they are. ~zen

It's a great little basic snippet, but I can't take credit for authoring it. That goes to Ion Poole with Martin McNiff & Steven Cook (authors of the book) "Your Atari Computer a guide to 400/800 personal computers" ISBN 0-931988-65-9 ~zen ------------------------ More info on it for those who are interested: It's a great reference, covering a wide variety of topics from hardware, OS, DOS, Basic, Graphics/Sound, Memory Usage etc.. With "useful" code snippets, charts, & diagrams. There are a large number of "terrible" books on Atari, This one happens to be in the elite category of must haves IMHO. There are two prints, same ISBN# and Copyright date 1982, the second one includes a Chapter on the XL series (600xl,800xl,1200xl)