apparently hand coded in C++

a guy i know was asking me what music format DP was in the movie.
his theory was mp3s but it doesn't sound right at all.
couldn't be PCM as that was extremely rare for the time.

as the grid exists from 83 and stops being worked on from the outside in 1989
the tech has to be from that time period.

certain bits of information i just need to figure out, like geek OCD.

well i know the midi format was created in 1983 but didn't show up in most music equipment for a few years after that. i couldn't seem to find any behind the scenes work on early arcade games until i perused repair sites.

so if the Tron arcade was in the film actually made by Encom,
presumably the guts are the same.

the music chip is the general instruments corp's. AY-3-8910.
as this chip was used in many arcade games and home computers and available until 1990 or so, it stands to reason the grid would have the same setup.

for those curious as to how insanely tough writing music for arcade games of the early 80s was:

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n7/stsound.html

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I think that the equipment is not from the 80s since Flynn was always ahead of its time. He did think of wifi before it was 'created'.

TRON.dll Wrote:I'd say maybe .cda (Compact Disc Audio), as I think audio CDs were around in the late 80's.

i did contemplate that one as my family had a cd player in 85 (when discs cost 45 bucks a pop) but seeing as Kevin was a game programmer, gaming/personal computing hardware made the most sense. especially since much of what was on the grid arena was new game types. (at least as far as betrayal showed.)

but the old method was a program essentially, creating a string of instructions to the chip.

a series of clock interruptions that resulted in the pitches we heard as "music".
there were no midi players in the old arcade games so they were essentially executables.

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