Topic: Petit Computer

I'll do Spanish.....

I need help. So if anyone can help me it'd be greatly appreciated. I need a full midi file of this:

It's the oracle of ages intro theme.
Either that or somone find a way to convert the raw .gbs file because I have that to.
OR if somone wants to be nice enough they could re compose it for petit computer.
o.0 I"m looking at you @Randomouscrap98 if you have the time.

The reason is because I have a nice surprise coming up soon. And I'm only four seconds into it... o.o but i've spent an hour on four seconds. x.x

Just replace some of the special characters with custom characters.

i need help wit one thing. i want to make an rpg with SCU but i dont know how to use data that way.I want to use data to arrange the scus like

DATA M1,M2
DATA M3,M4
etc.

Hi everyone I'm back from about a month and I'm back to work on my pong clone!

Randomouse and/or Diiscostew, how did you learn ptc so well?

PTC wasn't too hard to learn because I understood the BASIC programming language fairly well prior to it releasing (even though I'm more of a C/C++ sort of guy). Learning programming at the age of 7 back in 1988 helped, where I learned GW-BASIC, and had programming in my veins ever since. No one is expected to create masterpieces from the get-go. Familiarize yourself with the language and how it operates before you dive into programming logic. Start with small projects.

Just to let you know, this is to be my first "completed" project outside of school, and I've had so many projects start and fail prior to this that I have lost count.

You need to give us more information. Describe how you want it to operate. Give us an example game that you want it to behave like, just so it will give us an idea of what you're looking for, because that may determine whether SCRs will be valid to use.

I want it to have multiple SCUs for maps, im using
IF X coordinates==number AND Y coordinates==number THEN IF B==1 THEN PY=PY+2
as walls and I want to make it so where if he steps on certain coordinates on the map, the map changes and so does the IF walls collision.

@TobuKatsu if you're making maps with SCUs, you might want to try a MAP(,) array instead. It's simply a two dimentional array where you can check collision like this:

IF MAP(X COORD,Y COORD)>0 THEN ...

@Discostew @AnyoneElse I have a question. I want lag reduction in my games, and I was told that to reduce lag, instead of

VAR=2*3

DERP=VAR+5

you should do

DERP=(2*3)+5

to increase speed. Well now we get to the fun part. Let's say we have two programs; below is written program #1 and #2 respectively:

VAR=2+2

OTHERVAR=VAR*3

--

OTHERVAR=(2+2)*3

How many times would program #2 have to loop to match the runtime of program number one? In other words, how much faster is it to read a variable than to assign one?

@IAmAPersson
I didnt think of that! Thanks Persson!Ill try it!

@Randomous I need your assistance on a matter. I have found the instrument that sounds similar to the instrument used in most GBC melodies, but I can not seem to find the usual bass. Do you have any idea which one that might be??
@IAmAPersson I'm probably under-thinking this, but they seem to result to the same number. Based on this, I would probably pick #2 because it seems more efficient. I'm probably wrong, but I'm just noting my observations.

@Damolii I know that the second one is faster; my question was how much faster?

Your code didnt work, it keeps saying subscript out of range

@TobuKatsu you need to declare the array first with DIM.

I know, i did all that, the map prints out and every thing, it says the error is on the line with
IF MAP(PX,PY) THEN PY=PY+16

@TobuKatsu the only thing I can think of is to DIM the array bigger.

I made the array so that its exact as the screen size
DIM MAP(32,24)

I may not be Randomous, but I can answer your question. If you are looking for instruments that are much like what the GBC plays, then you need 4 instruments. Two are pulse wave generators, one is a programmable wave channel, and last is a noise generator. PTC provide you with all of them. The pulse wave generators range from instruments 114 to 150, the noise is instrument 151, and user-made waveforms range from instruments 224 to 255, but require you generate them via BGMPRG. While waveforms may be complicated, the example they provide may be exactly what you're look for. The example is a triangle wave, which is used on the GB/C and NES for bass. However, the example is actually not valid because it is too short (it must be either 64 or 128 2-digit hex characters long). Rather than go into details on how to form it, I can give it to you right here.

RESTORE @TRIANGLEWAVE
READ INSTR1$,INSTR2$
BGMPRG 224,127,127,127,127,INSTR1$+INSTR2$

@TRIANGLEWAVE
DATA "000810182028303840485058606870787F787068605850484038302820181008"
DATA "00F8F0E8E0D8D0C7C0B8B0A8A098908880889098A0A8B0B8C0C8D0D8E0E8F0F8"

Once you set this in your program and run it, it'll make instrument 224 act like a triangle wave for your bass. You can mess with the inputs for the Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release for the waveform (currently set to 127 in the code in the said order) if you need to tweak it. These 4 channels are what I use for my MM2PTC project (though I'm doubling up on them, one set for just background music, and the other set just for sound effects). I found the pulse instruments 144, 145, 147, and 149 simulate the NES pulse types just fine.

@Discostew I second your advice on starting small.

@damolii I'm sorry I haven't been around! As Discostew said, if you want it to sound exactly like that old-school sound, you'll have to recreate the Triangle wave so you have the "complete set". However, in my recreated songs, I just used a pulse instead of a triangle. It may not sound exactly right, but the bass isn't really all that noticeable to begin with in most songs, so it's passable.