Home Computing Weekly


Music Maker/TI Ludo/Charset 1
By PiKaDee
TI99/4A

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #75

Three programs, the most outstanding of which is TI Ludo. It's worth the money for this alone. The game is for one to four players. The computer will participate if requested but, I warn you, it does have an uncanny knack of winning.

Music Maker is a brave attempt at a difficult program to produce, for creating tunes on the TI. Those you compose may be saved in files and loaded when you want to play them again. The example is a rendering of Lily the Pink.

The screen display shows two staves. Using the cursor keys, notes, from F below Middle C to F flat three octaves above this, may be entered. Complete options are included to change mistakes and edit notes in memory. Tunes may be played as two or three note chords, or with a very effective echo.

Unless you have a basic knowledge of music, you'll find this difficult to understand and use.

Charset 1 contains character sets re-defined and their hexadecimal codes stored in DATA statements to use in your own programs.

J.W.