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- THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
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- Program by Steve Emsley
- Text by Fender Tucker -- 1993
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- If you remember, last year we
- published a demo we called CHRISTMAS
- 1982. It was a musical slideshow
- written by early programmers of the
- C-64 to be used as a demonstration by
- Commodore dealers. Well, there may
- not be any Commodore dealers these
- days, but we do have a lot of
- Commodore programmers still around,
- and Steve Emsley, a frequent
- contributor to LOADSTAR, is one of
- the best.
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- He sent me this program back in
- the early part of the year. He had
- seen the CHRISTMAS 1982 demo and felt
- inspired to write one of his own.
- There's something about mixing music
- with graphics and throwing in some
- sprites and text that appealed to him.
- What amazes me is how nice his
- pictures look even though they are
- done with the standard C-64 text
- graphics.
-
- I've learned a lot about mixing
- music, text, sprites and graphics
- this month. If you want to see how
- it's done, check out the code for
- this program. Jeff linked, crunched,
- smushed and osterized it so you can't
- really modify it, but you can look at
- the code.
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- Don't be a Scrooge this year. Put
- your monitor in a front window and let
- the neighbors see how full of
- spirit(s) you are.
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- FT
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