S U P E R B I N G O ver 2.0 =============================== Completion Date 17th July 1994 (c) Licenceware Software F1 Licenceware 31 Wellington Road Exeter Devon EX2-9DU Additional Samples on the female version have been done by my Julie (soap watching) girlfriend aged 27 Note ==== I decided to do a bingo game because I've seen versions that use the AMIGA say command and found they don't do the AMIGA justice when the AMIGA is capable of playing real sampled speech, nowadays most machines have 1 to 2 megs of Chip memory so why not take advantage of it in a game most musicians do with there music modules, so take care before deciding to try this game out of your machine if it's only got half meg chip & half meg fast memory (external), it may not work, Chip mmemory is were all the speech samples are stored. the very old AMIGAS are left by the wasteside these days. IMPORTANT ========= If anyone would like there own Speech samples put in the program then I will do the Job for £5.00, you can either send the samples on a disk or you could send a audio cassette with them on, the list of samples I need are at the END of this text file, I will add more if you want me to, yet make sure you have enough memory in your machine, I average approx 8,000 bytes for each sample in my game. BINGO consists of 2 games on a card or more than one card if you can manage to keep up with the caller. The first game you must have a horizontal line of numbers that have been called out by the bingo caller on any row. The second game you must have a full house, which means all the numbers on your card must have been called out by the caller. A tip is to circle all the numbers with a pen, this enables the caller or checker to check your cards more clearly against the checker board on the computer screen. On this disk are two text files consisting of Bingo Cards, you can print them out if you have a printer & you set the preferences to your printer, you can either print the full list of cards or you can dump from screen to your printer by Pressing Shift & D when a card is shown on the screen that you want to print out, for those who don't know much about the ppmore text viewer, try pressing the HELP key for more options about PPMORE. NOTE ==== I wish to thank Dave Brown writer of Bingo Professional for the above text card files from his disk, and thank him & his game for giving me the inspiration to program Super Bingo ver 2.0 If you don't have a printer then I suggest you either buy some cards from the places that supply the Bingo clubs or draw your own and photo copy them. Super Bingo Program info ======================== The main screen consists of 90 oblong panels that display numbers 1 to 90 when they are called out. On the left top of the display are Pitch & Speed values, PITCH is used to alter the speed of samples played from very slow to very fast cartoon type speech speed, I haven't allowed you to play them over fast or over slow so the settings have a minimum to maximum setting, use the left & right cursor keys to alter pitch. NOTE I made the speech echo a little to give the impression of being in a bingo hall/club and it adds slight depth to the speech. SPEED is used to alter the gap time between each number called from 0 to 5000, 5000 is much to big for the speed of A500 machines 2000 is recommended max for those machines. because A1200 are faster I had to have a 5000 max setting, Note if you prefer to control the speed of each number called then you could make the setting to max and you then can bypass the gap time by pressing the <- left arrow key left to the DEL key on the keyboard, thus giving a more realistic varied gap time between each number. Under the title you have a display panel that shows you in text what the machine is doing next. On the top right you have another panel that shows PAUSE mode on/off When a New game is ready to play you press the mouse key to start the game, the machines then calls out random numbers from 1 to 90 and highlights them on the panels with yellow backgrounds. The bingo players with there tickets are filling the numbers called on the bingo cards, when a play shouts "HERE" or "LINE" or even "BINGO" the computer operator of checker must press the left Mouse button on the MOUSE to stop the machine calling more numbers, you must then check the players card(S) against the ones called, Checking card numbers is as follows, using the left mouse button and the screen pointer you click on the number corresponding to the one on the card(s), they screen panels will highlight with a WHITE background to show you what numbers have been checked. If the checking the card(s) turn out to be a ERROR you can carry on with the game for a LINE by pressing the ESC key (takes you back), If the card(s) check out OK then to play for a FULL HOUSE you must click the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. LMB for checking RMB to continue ESC to restart LINE Game or HOUSE game. The things you do when checking for a FULL HOUSE, after a full house as been played the machine reverts back to being ready for a NEW game again. While the game is calling out numbers you can alter the PITCH & SPEED. Also a added feature is to display large numbers on the screen while the the game is calling the numbers out, to switch the numbers display on/off you use the SPACE BAR on the keyboard. The numbers display screen can be positioned in 3 places while the machine is calling the numbers, +/- keys ared used to do that, You could position your monitor or TV facing the players so they can also see the numbers that are called out. LIST KEYS USED IN THE SUPER BINGO GAME ====================================== L/R cursor keys Alter Pitch value U/D cursor keys Alter Speed value SPACE KEY Toggles number screen On/Off +/- keys Positions number screen T/M/B ESC Restarts current Line or House game played If error of card checking is found. Used only in card(s) checking mode. E Switches Echo On/Off P Switches Pause Mode On/Off <- key Skip calling time gap K or Help key Displays list of keys not mentioned on the Bingo screen I Info/About screen. Q Quits program after confirmation Also because this is licenceware I have included the source code on the disc, You will need to put your own samples in the program the samples needed are listed below in the order they are needed in the AMOS sample bank. LIST OF SAMPLES USED IN THE MALE VOICE GAME =========================================== Directory Bingo samples: 0-zero 5078 1-one 3992 2-two 7214 3-three 7678 4-four 5190 5-five 6616 6-six 6740 7-seven 7282 8-eight 6766 9-nine 8018 10-ten 4856 12-twelve 7208 13-thirteen 10620 14-fourteen 9976 15-fiveteen 11870 16-sixteen 11904 17-seventeen 10784 18-eightteen 8448 19-eleven 8128 19-nineteen 12650 20-twenty 9420 30-thirty 7004 40-fourty 7828 50-fifty 10078 60-sixty 9792 70-seventy 9952 80-eighty 5890 90-ninety 10860 A-and 6962 b-blind 6234 c-on its own Number 17530 d-ah 2856 e-line 9610 f-house 15374 g-check 6898 h-win 5306 i-housy 9052 j-please 6932 k-quiet please 10986 m-double 11050 n-number 7906 o-bingo 7254 x-for 6338 x-playing 6206 y-newgame 6940 Transvamp signing off................ Look out for my other productions SUPER BINGO ver 2.0 ___ ___ \|/ Another Transvamp Productions \|/ I would appreciate any shareware donation:- Program & Graphics & Samples by John Ingham (Transvamp) aged 36 182 Woodthorpe Road Woodthorpe Sheffield S13 8DX END OF TEXT FILE ================