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Trackers where awesome... and on the subject of follys of youth, I was and still am the only person who ever wrote (or even attempted to write) a protracker player for the 32k BBC Model B micro 
h_8-Bit[bootfile]_[SSD]/122920">http://www.emuparadise.me/Acorn_BBC_Micro_ROMs/Music_Tracker_v1.01_(1993)(DSPD)h_8-Bit[bootfile]_[SSD]/122920[h_8-Bit[bootfile]_[SSD]/122920" target="_blank" title="New Window">^]
While it didn't technically play the sampled sound, it did a reasonable conversion of loading the first 3 channels, then converting them to note data that was then played on the computers built in sound chip.
PS: Sorry about the messy link, it's not my doing, that was just the first of the "Emu Nostalgia Sites" I found that has it available, here's a bit.ly link to the same destination : http://bit.ly/1FD7MBF[^]
I did later on (along with help from "The Yorkshire Boys") figure out how to play digital sound samples on the machine, a feat that was in itself quite remarkable for a machine with such little power. (A 2 mhz 6502 with 32k of memory, of which only about 18k was useable)
Shawty
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I still remember the first tim I heard "CITADEL" come out of the Beeb's speaker!
I was excessively annoyed because I had argued with my Father that the processor would not be fast enough to play back digitised sound! Of course, I'd done the math with 'real' sound frequencies - it didn't occur to me that by reducing the quality one could still manage it!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Well you have Me and Henley Hacker from the Yorkshire Boys to mostly thank for that. We discovered and exploited a bug in the BBC's sound chip that allowed sampled sound to be played. Henley and the rest of TYBs then went on to make the exploit very popular with their mix mania disks, while I published a couple of "Docs" on how it was done and created a couple of SDK's and "Replayer" routines.
Before we knew what was happening, all most every Game publisher in the BBC market pretty much over night started adding sampled sound to their games..
I might still have the original disks with my docs and such like on somewhere, whether their readable or not is another matter altogether however.
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The folly of my youth is actually someone else's folly, some guy named St. Francis, St. Francis Folly[^] 
Awesome soundtrack too!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Then, looking for something entirely unrelated - I found you can still find it on the interwebs[^]!
'Twould appear that I already have a copy, given that I downloaded the entire D1 & D2 wad databases.
I'll give it a whirl, tonight, and hurl abuse and insults at you tell you how it went, tommorrow.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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O (as they say) M (possessively) G!
I am impressed not only that you have all the WADs but that you apparently have a working copy of Doom accessible!
don't hold our breath for the map - it was just demonstrating a 'feature' that allowed you to be in a room full of baddies who wouldn't harm a hair on your head!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: you apparently have a working copy of Doom accessible!
DooM 1 (Ultimate), DooM 2, and Final DooM.
I just copy them to the same location, every time I get a new machine, and they just work. Best money I ever spent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Young, huh? Sounds a lot better than PooperPig... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Oui! It 'as a leetle of ze French, do you not think Monsieur?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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No. Actually, PooperPig sounds more French to me... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Cool story, bro!
Seriously, I think this is cool. I used to love playing Doom. 
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I have no clue what you are talking about.
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OK.
1. Shoot the door to open it.
2. Shoot the first shotgun guy, to wake everyone up.
3. Dodge around a bit, so that the pink doggy takes all the enemy fire.
4. Shoot the front barrel.
5. Pick up a shotgun.
6. Mop up.
7. Profit.
Not quite in the same league as Requiem or Darken, is it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Granted.its not quite up to requiem but, to be fair, it didn't take me quite as long to make, either.
And the purpose was reviewing the various was editors not making a.good level!
But thanks for.playing - i may have to hunt down a copy of doom to remind myself !
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Ah, the folly of youth. Fortunately, my youth is so distant that the wayback machine doesn't remember most of the stupid stuff I said when I was a young geek. Feel sorry for you younger folks though.
Anyone remember the photo of Sarah Palin dressed up as a hooker for Halloween. Betcha she wishes she never posted that pic. Who knows, when they 17 and bragging about how friggin' wasted they are RIGHT NOW, how that's going to look to an employer when they are 23? Or a law firm when they are 30. Or the Selection Committee when they are 45.
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"My Hobby is a computer game" (9)
Nice n easy.
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a computer game - StarCraft
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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"Obsession"? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Your turn tomorrow.
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I like that one!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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sort of f***ed it up a bit though. Was meant to think of one last night - remembered on the bus this morning that I hadn't and tried to come up with one quick and linked hobby to craft as synonyms but i realise now that I was probably thinking of the shop hobbycraft and that is why I linked them.
At least Abhinav bailed me out. 
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BTW as it turns out "Obsession" is also a computer game. I didn't know that when I answered. But "MineCraft" makes more sense. And I still am glad I am not the winner. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Well at least it was right with Craft XD
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Tomb Raider 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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