Plays five popular tunes of the mid-1980s on the TS2068’s AY sound chip. The magazine would not name them, telling readers to load the program to find out; the titles stored in the program are “Axel F”, “California Girls”, “The Heat Is On”, “Somebody” and “Just the Way You Are”.
Tune Box is by Kristian Boisvert and was published on the September 1986 tape of Byte Power (#63045), with a loading time of 1 minute 10 seconds. A second set of five tunes, Tune Box Volume 2, followed in the October 1986 issue (#59089).
Program Analysis
The tape file is one 12,644-byte BASIC program. The player and the note data sit in a REM at line 0 and are started from line 1 with PRINT USR 32309; when the player returns, the program shows “QUIT”, pauses and clears itself with NEW. The code and music data are not decoded here.
Notable Techniques
- Line 1 checks
PEEK 23681: Byte Power told readers toPOKE 23681,0before loading a program so that it stops after loading and can be saved with line 9999 as a personal backup; otherwise the program starts the code.
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