{"id":16,"date":"2008-06-10T09:22:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-05-22T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:24:51","slug":"exploding-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/2008\/06\/10\/exploding-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a few games to test things with. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve been using the Space Quest III Astrochicken demo to test the basic sound code. This means I&#8217;ve spent a lot of the past week listening to chickeny music, puncuated by the occasional explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia&#8217;s article on &#8220;Astro Chicken&#8221; begins thusly :<br \/>\nThis article is about the hypothetical self-replicating spacecraft concept. For the side game from Space Quest III, see\u00a0<i><a title=\"Astro Chicken\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astro_Chicken\">Astro Chicken<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So we do that, and learn the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn the fictional storyline of\u00a0<i>SQ III<\/i>, the\u00a0<a title=\"Two Guys from Andromeda\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_Guys_from_Andromeda\">Two Guys from Andromeda<\/a>\u00a0were enslaved by ScumSoft. ScumSoft, in the game, is an evil software company, maybe partly inspired by\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"SunSoft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SunSoft\">SunSoft<\/a><sup class=\"noprint Template-Fact\"><span title=\"This claim needs references to reliable sources since February 2008\">[<i><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/i>]<\/span><\/sup>, but also the Lucas Arts adventure games (the engine was called SCUMM)<sup class=\"noprint Template-Fact\"><span title=\"This claim needs references to reliable sources since February 2008\">[<i><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/i>]<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0(some claim Elmo Pug was a caricature of\u00a0<a title=\"Bill Gates\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates\">Bill Gates<\/a><sup class=\"noprint Template-Fact\"><span title=\"This claim needs references to reliable sources since February 2008\">[<i><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/i>]<\/span><\/sup>). At ScumSoft HQ, they were forced to create games such as\u00a0<i>Astro Chicken<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that&#8217;s kind of ironic.<\/p>\n<p>Adlib driver seems to be working pretty well now, so we just need to modify the open() callback for each of the sound card\/patch formats.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a diagram jvprat made. It shows the basic flow of MIDI info:<a href=\"..\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gc7DaLbFso0\/SE6s-BJhpWI\/AAAAAAAAAAQ\/Cm-KdLz7zJ0\/s1600-h\/sound.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210292000374498658\" src=\"..\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gc7DaLbFso0\/SE6s-BJhpWI\/AAAAAAAAAAQ\/Cm-KdLz7zJ0\/s320\/sound.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/sound.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a few games to test things with. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve been using the Space Quest III Astrochicken demo to test the basic sound code. This means I&#8217;ve spent a lot of the past week listening to chickeny music, puncuated by the occasional explosion. Wikipedia&#8217;s article on &#8220;Astro Chicken&#8221; begins thusly : This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/scummsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}