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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Program by Steve Emsley
Text by Fender Tucker -- 1993
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.
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.
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.
FT