Re: Forte?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <52af4a80.0307160100.624079b6@posting.google.com>,
hally <hally@vorc.org> wrote:
 
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone know something about a text based music editing system
> called Forte for Applle ii? It seems to have been programmed in around
> 1979-1980, by Gary Shannon who made music routine for Programmer's Aid
> #1. I guess it works like PLAY statement on GW-BASIC or
> something...right?
>
> hally
 
I have it on a disk image of one of my old Apple II disks...
 
INTGAME2.DSK:
 A 002 HELLO
*I 002 MURDER
*I 018 BLOODY MURDER
*B 022 A
*B 026 B
*I 049 APPLE BOWL
*B 010 BOWLING.OBJ
*I 013 SPACE RACE
*I 007 LIFE
*I 007 FASTLIFE
*I 010 LIT'L BUG
*B 003 BUG
*I 033 MUSIC
*I 016 MUSIC 2
*I 053 APPLE-TREK
*I 023 MUSIC SYNTHESIZER
*I 007 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
*I 011 BACH
*I 004 SOUND EFFECTS
*I 027 FORTE
*B 006 CLEMENTI 1
*I 010 SPEED TYPING TEST
*I 002 HIRES DEMO
*B 018 DEMO.OBJ
*I 015 KALEIDOSCOPE
*B 003 CALEIDOSCOPE
*I 007 AVALANCHE
*I 009 HANGMAN
*I 008 CORNERS
*I 038 CUBIK
 
I have no docs though.  The binary file "CLEMENTI 1" is a "song" for
FORTE ... one can LIST it and from that figure out pretty much how
FORTE is programmed.
 
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