[Coco] Format Issues with ORC-90 Fwd: ORC-90

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To Bill

Good these the songs on disk play well I look forward to trying
out Orchestra Master as well when I have time.

Thanks - Charlie.

On 2022-03-07 09:27, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> First, Coco Orch90 files are not completely ASCII. The first byte of
> each line has the value $80 added to it, with no CR at the end of the
> line. When Orc90 finds a character with a value higher than 128, it
> subtracts 128 and starts a new line with that character. I think
> Orch90 will load straight ASCII files, but only under special
> conditions.
> 
> 2nd, the files found under the main section "Orchestra90", in the
> archives were from the Compuserve Model 1-3 Orch90 archive and
> actually contains files for the "Orchestra Master" (converted by
> someone) and the Tandy Model 1-3 versions of Orch90. The files with
> the extension "*.ORC" are for Orchestra Master (I think), and the
> files with the extension "*.ASC" are for the Model 1-3. Coco Orch90
> files have NO extension. There is a text file in this folder
> explaining this, but it is wrong in stating that the last char in each
> line is "ORed" with $80 as it is the first char in each line.
> 
> 3rd, there are more images in the archives under "DISKS/MUSIC" in zip
> files containing disk images of (I think) converted files that will
> load into the Coco Orch90 correctly.
> 
> 4th, Orch90 does use standard RSDOS formatted disks, but uses a
> slightly different directory track method. Orch90 has it's own disk
> routines and does NOT use the RSDOS ROMs. Disks for Orch90 should only
> be used for Orch90 files and not mixing BASIC/ML programs on them. I
> think the "Orchestra Master" player/editor uses straight ASCII files
> stored RSDOS style.
> 
> At one time (a long time ago), I was going to convert all those files
> to the proper format, but got sidetracked. I was also told by
> Guillimue (CoCo Archive Admin), that he had already done this,
> resulting in the alternate zip files found under "DISKS/MUSIC", so I
> dropped the project.
> 
> Read the text file under "ROOT/ORCHESTRA90" for more info.
> I hope this helps...
> Bill P.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco at jechar.ca
> To: Coco List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Mar 6, 2022 1:35 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Format Issues with ORC-90 Fwd: ORC-90
> 
> All
> 
> Was successfully able to type and save the sample "Twinkle Twinkle
> Little Star" song to a virtual disk and reloaded and played it to
> confirm that it worked. BUT the online ORC-90 files are ASCII but what
> is saved is a binary format for example
> With "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" saved in TTLS on virtual disk
> ORC90M01.DSK and using the command
> decb copy ORC90M01.DSK,TTLS -al TA
> from toolshed I get this gibberish.
> ïo`TWINKLE`TWINKLEàÎQ}vpÍq`QslslwlwlÍr`QxlxlwldÍs`QvflvflululÍt`QtltlsldÍu`QwlwlvflvflÍv`QulultldÍw`QwlwlvflvflÍx`QulultldÍy`QslslwlwlÍqp`QxlxlwldÍqq`QvflvflululÍqr`Qtltlsld
> 
> Witch looks nothing like the source code I typed in.
> So Is there a format converter to translate between this gibberish and
> proper ORC90 source as is posted on the CoCo Archives ?
> 
> Charlie
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Coco] ORC-90
> Date: 2022-03-01 19:03
>  From: coco at jechar.ca
> To: Coco List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> All
> 
> I have some ORC-90 files they seem to be text files but just putting
> them on an RS-DOS disk does not do any good the ORC-90 cannot read 
> them.
> How do I convert them into something the ORC-90 can use I know it can
> access a disk as I have been able to save and reload the built in 
> sample
> William Tell Overture it does not seem to be a text file.
> 
> Thanks
> Charlie
> 
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