A music program that plays five tunes on the TS2068 sound chip, among them “Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It)” and the theme from “Runaway”. It follows the first Tune Box, from the September 1986 issue.
Written by Kristian Boisvert for Byte Power, October 1986, where it is listed as TUNE BOX2 with a loading time of 1 minute.
Program Analysis
The tape file is a 10,975-byte BASIC program with the player and the music data in the REM at line 0. Line 1 calls RANDOMIZE USR 30642; when the code returns it prints “QUIT”, pauses for about three seconds and executes NEW. If system variable 23681 is 0, line 2 lists the save line instead. The code has not been disassembled, so the other three tunes are not named here.
As with every Byte Power program, the magazine’s copy instructions say to POKE 23681,0 before loading so that the program stops after loading and line 9999 can save a backup. The program has no download of its own; it is on the Byte Power October 1986 tape.
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