Basic Code That Everyone Must Run!

Okay go out and get yourself a qbasic compiler www.qbasic.com compile and run this code. I didn't even know this could be done!

I can't run it cause I'm using Linux right now. Read the source though at seems really simple. Music notes are just sound waves at certain frequencys. Someone took the time to convert the musical notation (sheet music) to the appropriate frequency. They created a long data list of frequency (musical note) and duration(lenght note is played for) pairs and used the sound function to cycle through them. Quite simple, but I'm sure it sounds cool. It would be really neat if someone rewrote the program to sample a sound, from a wav file, and then used that instead of the system beep tone.

Imagine Bach's # 4 sampled with cats meowing or something similar. Would be kinda funny.

DeafLamb

Man there's a huge error in your coding

DefInt A-Z ' declare all variables integer type
READ (FREQUENCY), Duration ' read first Frequency and Duration pair
While Frequency <> -1 ' keep playing notes until the end of song
DELAY 0.05 ' general delay for music clarity
If Frequency = 0 Then


Your Frequency is wrong

i would fix it but i doing other things, other then that it looks good.
Cheers

It isn't my code, and it compiles just fine. Go ahead and try it. And as for cool...it is rad. My system speaker was tearing some ass!

If you are interested in doing musical programming looking into c-sound... It is designed to work with music and you can program things in terms of scales and notes instead of frequencies.

QBasic also has the "play" syntax...

Code:

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Play "ABCGFE"

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there are also some timing/pitch modifiers that work with the play syntax...
look at the help file for more info...

it liked it, just i had to make a few modifications, like having an exit command, and displaying something on the screen while the notes played....good code, though


slick

ive been having a ball with it, compiled it to music.exe

psexec \\freind_mach -c music.exe

here's the exe if anyone wants it

That's cool!!!! I couldn't get it to run with qbasic, it had a syntax error on the
DELAY .05
part. Thanks Lansing_Banda for posting it and thanks Tedob1 for the .exe so I could actually use it.

Thanks Lansing_ and Tedob1 - Oz, my dog, is packing his bags and leaving the house - it freaks him out. Cool!

Elmore

CPU HOG! lol
There is something on line 2 of the acctual code that pisses VB6 off, oh well, the compiled one worked....now to yank my PC speaker out and burn it!

- Noia

today has been both funny and scarry. when users computers suddenly started playing music there looks where a mix of startled puzzled and scarred but yet nobody called the it dept. its not like we go around doing things like that. !?!

Rock on! \m/oo\m/!! :D

Seriously though, that is damn cool. It made me want to set up and play my Atari.

I just wish my beep codes sounded that cool.

??? how did we get kicks..ahh moosic.. before soundcards became the norm ???

must load that baby up on the ol 486.. and play some cool shite sounds while the newer machines work their little cpu's out..

cheers..

I do need to check out some of my older software.. some may impress ..

Cheers