Reviews of restored numbers

[Greg]

Laserium I Danube came to mind

There is a Laserium video of The Blue Danube easily found online. Here, attached, is a frame of the data showing the Danube circles and eights. One can see the DANUBE RATE holds a value. This value sweeps at one point in the song. I didn't see any activity in bits 15,5 and 20,2 which are the candidates for the Danube cue bit. Nothing interesting in Cantina either.

Laserium1 has big passages with little data activity. If you, Roj, have any recollections about how you used to perform specific passages in that show, then those stories would be of interest.

Lasermaster1977: If possible, would you post the point pairs in ASCII for your cleaned up drum set? It might go well with the shown guitar graphic from The Beatles.

[lasermaster1977]

Lasermaster1977: If possible, would you post the point pairs in ASCII for your cleaned up drum set? It might go well with the shown guitar graphic from The Beatles.

The "cleaned up drum set" point pairs are in my 0-255 x 0-255 XY grid values (not the 2's complement of the original) but I'll work on cleaning up the original drum's 2's complement ASCII point pairs and post that when time allows.

[Greg]

The "cleaned up drum set" point pairs are in my 0-255 x 0-255 XY grid values (not the 2's complement of the original) but I'll work on cleaning up the original drum's 2's complement ASCII point pairs and post that when time allows.

Your 0-255 x 0-255 XY grid values are preferable to two's complement, which would just have to be changed to that anyway.

[lasermaster1977]

Your 0-255 x 0-255 XY grid values are preferable to two's complement, which would just have to be changed to that anyway.

Well that makes it a tiny bit easier (for me). For clarity, my Apple II 8-bit image coordinate system is a Cartesian Quadrant I system with the Y values inverted. 0,0 is the upper left-hand corner and 255,255 is the lower right-hand corner. All of my images are stored as Apple II/IIe/IIgs DOS3.3 Binary file types where each 8-bit byte is stored as a Hex value and a Binary image is stored as sequential XY Hex pair values.

The attached text file consists of the DRUMS sequential XY values from start to end with there being 16 bytes per line of text. I have removed my special image codes for point rate and color blanking leaving only the raw XY image point values. I did leave in "dwell" point values and they are easily identified as repeated XY value pairs.

You will have to convert these Hex values into whole number Integer values if that is what you want.

A2C.DRUMS_LessCodes.txt

[Greg]

I've tried every numeric encoding setting in Notepad ++, to examine an ILD file but only saw graphic characters.

I expect James would have had a quick solution for this.

[laserist]

There wasn't a Danube "cue bit" you switched between loops and eights by changing from the A bus to the B bus.

[laserist]

Ivan liked Danube just the way it was programmed - we just faded it up and took it easy for 7 or 8 minutes.

[Greg]

Ivan liked Danube just the way it was programmed - we just faded it up and took it easy for 7 or 8 minutes.

Interesting detail. Good to know.

[Greg]

There wasn't a Danube "cue bit" you switched between loops and eights by changing from the A bus to the B bus.

Certainly the A / B bus loops / eights control is well understood. But what do you make of the following excerpts from 6b-DNUB.pdf?

[lasermaster1977]

Sounds like you're having similar conversion challenges as myself. I've tried every numeric encoding setting in Notepad ++, to examine an ILD file but only saw graphic characters.
Jonathan and I have been having similar discussions and he sent me this, fwiw, which I haven't looked at yet, but may be useful to you at some point.

To view any Hex-based data file with Notepad++ you must first Enable the Hex-Editor with the Plugins Admin menu. To Enable the Hex-Editor:
1. Open Notepad++
2. From the Menu bar, click Plugins > Plugins Admin...
3. In the Plugins Admin window select the Available tab
4. Scroll down to the Hex-Editor item and put a check in its box, then click the Install button in the upper right hand corner of the Plugin Admin window
Note: If you get a warning that the Hex-Editor plugin may cause odd behaviors or something similar, ignore the warning...but take heed, and click OK
I've only used the Hex-Editor plugin to view .ILD file, not to edit them and experienced no problems even if I did do some minor edits.
5. Click Close to close the Plugin Admin window

Now open a .ILD file, you will see something like this:


Having added the Hex-Editor plugin makes the Hex-Editor available under Notepad++'s Plugins Menu, click Plugins then click Hex-Editor. The Hex-Editor pop-out menu will appear. Click View in Hex.
You should now see the .ILD file contents like this:


badda-bing, badda boom

Final NOTE: With the Hex-Editor plugin enabled you will always get a pop-up warning with every Notepad++ upgrade install that the Hex-Editor is enabled, do you want to disable it (recommended). I just leave it enabled and install the new version.