From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Sun Dec 21 15:31:14 2003 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:51:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Tarenskeen X-X-Sender: To: MiNT Mailing List Subject: [MiNT] Mup's Dice 1.0.0 released (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.23.0.1; VDF: 6.23.0.2; host: postbode02.zonnet.nl) Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: m.tarenskeen@zonnet.nl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Hi Mup users, I'm proud to present Mup's Dice 1.0.0 ! What is it ? I coded W.A.Mozart's Musikalisches Wuerfelspiel K.V. Anh.294d (516f) into an advanced Mup input file, and programmed a shell script that serves as a frontend to this Musical Dice Game. I quote: Mozart's "INSTRUCTION To compose without the least knowledge of Music so much German Waltzer or Schleifer as one pleases, by throwing a certain Number with two Dice", the "Dice Waltz" for short, was first published by J Hummel in Berlin and Amsterdam in 1792, the year following Mozart's death. It was a sort of game, played by throwing a pair of dice. Depending on the value thrown, a different bar of music would be chosen from a large table and written down. When this had been repeated sixteen times, the new "composition" was complete, and could be played. Now this game can be played on any computer on which Mup is installed, but I'm releasing it as a noarch.rpm package that should hopefully install and work on many Linux distributions, and as a tar.gz archive if rpm doesn't work or isn't available. I have developed it on my ancient and exotic Atari Falcon running FreeMiNT, and would like to hear from you if it installs and runs right out of the box (after reading the documentation) on other systems too. I think it is a nice demonstration of both the genious of Mozart and the power of Mup. Compared to these, my contribution is a modest one. Please try, and have fun. You can find mupsdice here: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/m.tarenskeen/download/mint/ -- Martin Tarenskeen