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M. A. Phillips
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Dome C, Antarctica: The Best Accessible Sub-millimetre Site on the Planet?
The French-Italian station of Dome Concordia (lat. 76° S; long. 123° E; alt. 3,260 m) will be operating year-round from January 2005, offering a new outstanding opportunity for the deployment of instrumentatio...
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Understanding Sound
Before getting too involved in the BBC computer SOUND and ENVELOPE statements, it is essential to grasp the concepts involved in the production of sounds. There is little point in learning how to operate a too...
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The Envelope Statement
Even if all the instruments in an orchestra were playing the same note, the sound produced by each type of instrument would be quite different. This is because the quality (or timbre) of each instrument is dif...
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The Speech Synthesiser
Speech synthesis is one of the more exciting prospects available as an extra for the BBC microcomputer. Provision for speech has been made on the circuit board of the computer. There are two vacant 28 pin sock...
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Introduction
Considering all the books that have been written about programming the BBC microcomputer, it might seem strange that the subject of this book is just two of the statements in BBC BASIC. However, these two stat...
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The Sound Statement
There are two ways of getting the computer to do something. First you can give it a command it can carry out straight away; second you can give it a numbered instruction, often called a statement, which it can...
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Music
If the reader has worked through the chapters on the SOUND and ENVELOPE statements, then the possibilities for making music on the computer will be only too apparent. The BBC machine has several features that ...
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Assembly Language
One advantage of assembly language, and often its main reason for use, is its speed of execution. This is seldom an advantage for sound as the time taken to hear the sound is far longer than the execution spee...
