[Lobotomy]

I'm playing with the Atari 8-bit family of computers so I can get back into the realm of programming.

What I have below is a series of PRINT loops associated with 3 SOUND tones. Basically I have two descending tones, and one that I'm just fucking with (50). One of the PRINT commands counts the number of tones being played, whilst the second counts how many times the program has looped. Line 100 is unused.

10 FOR A=0 TO 255
20 FOR B=0 TO 64
30 PRINT B
40 PRINT A
50 SOUND 1,A/2^4,10,10
60 SOUND 3,B,14,15
70 SOUND 0,B,12,10
80 NEXT B
90 NEXT A
100 SOUND 0,0,0,0

The SOUND parameters are in order by tone, pitch, distortion, volume.

Can someone explain to me how to get a rising pitch in this bullshit? Any expression so far that I put in the second parameter in SOUND lowers in pitch iteratively. I've tried different variables in an additional STEP command for lines 10 and 20, but to no avail.

This post has been edited by Lobotomy: 29 March 2014 - 09:19 PM

[Aerosol]

Maybe 0 is...the maximum? I dunno what I'm talking about.

[Cooljerk]

I haven't worked with atari basic in yeeeeeears. Try this:

10 FOR B=0 TO 64 STEP +0.2:SOUND 3,B,14,15:NEXT B

see if that single line works, then try expanding from there.

EDIT: Wrote that from memory but looking around online it looks correct. I have a huge reference manual for atari basic at home, if the above doesn't work I'll try looking up their SOUND examples and posting some code later, just drop a line to remind me.

This post has been edited by Cooljerk: 31 March 2014 - 11:59 AM

[Lobotomy]

Nope, the pitch descends.

EDIT: Whoop, all I had to do was reverse the equation. Wouldn't work on the original code though. Weird.

10 FOR B=64 TO 0 STEP -0.2:SOUND 3,B,14,15:NEXT B

Thanks for the help, I'll keep this thread open because I'm going to invariably fuck up again.

This post has been edited by Lobotomy: 31 March 2014 - 07:43 PM