From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Etienne Grossmann Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 18:34:16 +0000 Subject: Announce: alpha silly sound game Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have written a musical "game". \_ with quotes, because it isn't very much fun. The rules are : the computer plays a succession of chords, and for each, the player should say if the chord was a minor or a major. Good answers give points, bad ones remove a "life" (you start with 3). The chords are played within a single key, so it is (theoretically) possible for the hearer to say the height (from 1 to 7) of the chord in that scale. If the player guesses rightly the height, he gets rewarded (and he loses a life he guesses wrongly). Now and then, the key changes, and if the hearer hears it, he can say it too. There are a GTK and a plain terminal interface. On the "install" side, it may requires some work : it needs the following programs - abc2midi, in a version that allows it to take input from stdin. The authors of abc2midi make that feature available simply by commenting 2 lines of code, in the 1.6 release. I know the "Debian 2.0" abc2midi does not have this feature. It should be at : http://perun.hscs.wmin.ac.uk/~jra/abcMIDI/ - playmidi : I use 2.3. The standard version should be ok, but the sound seems better with a home-patched version (this may depend on my sound setup, though). - Perl, with module "Time::HiRes" installed; module "Gtk" is needed for the Gtk interface. If anyone is interested, I'd be glad to put it all in a tarball for him/her to try it out Cheers, Etienne