Yeah, sound's been on calcs for quite a while. You need a 2.5 mm headphone, but you gotta find the right one. I don't know where to find ones that will work, though.

Hmm, isn't the iPod headphone 2.5 mm? Does anyone know if that'll work? I need to find it, though...

If you want to make sure you get an adapter that fits, you can get a 2.5mm-female to 3.5mm-female and connect it to a TI link cable. That's what I did (more or less)

The OS is probably checking constantly for link activity.

By the way, could you send me the source for that program? I lost it.

EDIT: Oh, wait, never mind. It's in the Axe .zip

You can just unplug it until you start running a program.

Aw.  Okay, I guess it's really not too much of a hassle.
Does anybody know of a good song or song player thing that I can add so I can show this off at school?

You actually can have multi-channeled sound right now using the "Port" command to get similar quality to quadplayer.  There is no way you'd be able to have much of a game going on in the background though, but if you're just doing this for the audio itself, it sure is possible, just a little tricky.

Hmm thanks for pointing that out. One more thing I need to try when I start experimenting with sound

Somebody made a "Guitar Hero" type game a while back (with, if I remember correctly, 2-bit sound), so it's not out of the question to do sound and other stuff at the same time.  It's not easy, but it can be done.

For many games, it might be acceptable to freeze the action for a few tenths of a second (or display some simple animation while playing a sound effect.)  And with programmable timer interrupts on the SE, you could play simple sound effects in the "background", fairly effectively.  You'd just have to be careful to base your frame rate on a separate, consistent time source (e.g., the port 3 timers or one of the other programmable timers.)

Yeah, the sound quality was really low, but it still demonstrates that sounds in-game is still possible

We can sacrify some frames per second for sound, I am sure. I don't think we really need 60 FPS, because it looks blurry on those LCDs, anyway. I think 12-20 FPS is just enough.

Jim e wrote a program called "Real Sound" that packs a sound file into a Flash app.  The app will, of course, be huge for a song of any length, but it does work pretty well.

(I think it's one of those programs that relies on the extra RAM, so it won't work on recently-manufactured 84+es.)

If I remember, one minute of sound is about 1.3 MB on calc. I had a rickroll APP on United-TI before they switched servers. I think such stuff isn't really practical in-game, though. The sound needs to be lower quality, because I don't think many people will want to play a 500 KB tunnel clone just because it plays through a 30 second segment of "Initial D - Feel The Power" until you die in-game or from the music (not that that song is bad, though).

That might be hard to get such complex sound files to play with others at once, though. And music with only one instrument playing at once would be a bit simple I think.

Also I just noticed this topic got 100 pages!