[Coco] Orchestra90 module for nitros9

[Bill Pierce]

Allen, I think the one I saw back in the 80s was either from delphi or compuserve.

Yeah, the score routine is pretty complex. It has to reference a wave table, a not table and the register table and create a complete waveform fo each note in the song, then the player is called to play through it all.
The player is actually simple and much like Musica's. Musica creates the same thing as scoring in orch90, but does it as you enter each note, then stores it complete and ready to play.


-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 12:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Orchestra90 module for nitros9

On Apr 11, 2020, at 4:22 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Since Orch90 is only an 8k rom, one could probably take the original rom source and make an OS-9 app from it, but it would have to be converted to PIC and that's a PITA! There's also much code for there for cass/disk access, screen display, and telecommunications (yes, Orch90 has a built in comm app). It's really a big task and would take some time.

I never figured out the scoring of music in Orch-90 but did use it as an output device in Musica 2.

Having a player of all those files would be nice to find, especially with a hard drive being able to hold them all easily.

Maybe we need to search Rainbow archives for a reference?

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