Date   : Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:49:04 +0100
From   : Graham Bisset <graham@...>
Subject: Re: Music 5000

At 10:01 13/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Faraz Choudhry writes:
>>
>>The Music 5000 must have been the best music packages ever available for
the 8-bit micros.  Surely, somewhere there has to have been some code
knocked together to actually compile music files to be played back as a
machine code file to be used with other BASIC or m/c files?  If there has
been then which is the best ones available?  I would then surely be
interested in obtaining the Music 5000.
>
>Nope, nobody is likely to do that either. I have looked inside the AMPLE ROM
>and source code, and it just wouldn't be feasible to try to compile it into
>some other format. AMPLE provides an event-driven multi-tasking language on
>the BBC, any compilation of AMPLE code would have to include all of the
>support environment (which would entirely negate the purpose of compiling
>it).
>

As an addendum, I recall back in the late 80's that Orlando wanted to take
advantage of Music 500(0) in one of his games, but he said that the event
driven nature take *so* much processing time, that there wouldn't be
any CPU power left for the game!

Cheers
Graham