LordMortiferus wrote on 2020-10-03, 20:06:
Thanks a lot for all those patches!
You're welcome! Everyone is welcome to join in.
LordMortiferus wrote on 2020-10-03, 20:06:
How about Skate or Die? Scali made a video showing a patched version of the game on an IBM 5160 with CGA and Tandy sound. However, to my knowledge the patch was never released.
Yeah i think i remember that one, i don't remember if i have the file around, but i'll check on my 5150.
Skate or Die, Kings of the Beach and Ski or Die are cool titles, but seem to only use Tandy Sound on the title screen music. The rest seems PC Speaker only.
Other games might just be impossible to patch due to a set of different executables for CGA, EGA or Tandy. This was common because .COM files share code and data within the same segment, so it was Impossible to do everything on one file only. From then on .EXE files were used the most.
Arkonoid is feasable to be patched since the Tandy Sound routines are there inside the same file. It is possible to patch, but i'm really at the limit of what i can do and its really looking for a needle in a haystack. I can force data to be sent to the Tandy Sound chip but i haven't yet identified where in the program that data is set for PC Speaker or Tandy. So what happens is that Tandy plays wrong notes. And i can do the opposite make PC Speaker play Tandy data which will Sound wrong too.
Need to find someone willing to help me out with this, because it seems that it can be done.