SEUD .tap - where can I buy?

[lamptonworm]

Hi,

I'd like to have a play with SEUD and give JC some well deserved quids as thanks for the excellent AGD.

I've found it up on Chronosoft but I want to purchase the .tap, I emailed the guys weeks ago but no response.

Any ideas? Jon, if you are willing to email me the .tap I can add a donation via PayPal or something first perhaps.

Cheers,
LW.

[Doug Bagnall]

I too wanted to give Jonathan some well deserved cash so I bought the cassette from Chronosoft and created a .tap file from that.

[alessandro]

I also emailed Simon weeks ago several times but got no response. I hope everything's alright with him.

Back to topic, I purchased the .TAP version as a digital download three years ago, but so far the only real product I authored with it is the second chapter of Cousin Horace.

[lamptonworm]

Hi,

I placed an order and the tapes arrived yesterday - so things seem ok perhaps the email address is old.

Loaded the SEUD cassette via line-in to Spectaculator then saved out a .szx, all working. SEUD is interesting so far, it seems to have some quirks which I spent some time reading about on the WOS forums. Still, looks like enough to make a shooter.

I wonder if you can do background music on SEUD games?

Cheers,
LW.

[alessandro]

May 7, 2016 18:27:48 GMT lamptonworm said:

I wonder if you can do background music on SEUD games?

According to the user manual:

There is a superfluous CALL instruction at address 48001, which can be used to call an external routine at initialisation. By poking a different address into 48002 and 48003 you could modify the game to call your own routine, so for example you could call a screen decompression routine to set up the status panel. However, you should not return from your routine with interrupts enabled or the game will crash.

This could mean that you could insert a CALL instruction pointing to the music starter routine, but since sound FX are AY only, they will interfere with music. Had I enough time on my hands (which is not the case these days, alas) I could try experimenting with this myself...

[lamptonworm]

It seems only 1 sound is workable with SEUD, if that is always on the same channel the music could be composed with that in mind, loosing a channel in the music is not ideal but it might make for better SEUD audio overall. Perhaps I should get this working with AGD first then move to this

Cheers,
LW.