spiralofhope

Commodore SID music players >
Media Websites >

I intended to have this page absorbed into a seamless integration with every page globally. A nice floating stop/pause/start button and a song selection/randomizer with sids, midis, mp3s.. whatever.

• provide the SID plugin pages/info/download

  • or better yet.. it could be opened by the sidplayer.. I wonder how I could have the browser ignore the plugin in the browser and skip to the external app.
• I’d have to have an “off” function.. I’d have to feed a “blank” SID tune to the player to turn it off..
• don’t forget to have good information on each song.. author/homepage etc…
• I have to design a muliple sound format jukebox here.. doesn’t sound too hard, but I don’t have the grasp of Java necessary yet.

• Throw the plugin status box in its own frame/hidden frame/zero size box?

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
song = new Array(0);

        song[0] ='!Injection.sid'       // Injection.sid - Lunatic / 1999 Cult (more info to come)
        song[1] ='!passport.mid'

// This handles more songs added in on the fly!  =)
// Can I have it look in a dir, read the filenames, and pick something random from the dir?
// I could theoretically have an include statement here, and have the file called by the include
// statement modified with the directory structure thrown in.. wouldn't that work? Include is IE
// only?  =(  Hell.. couldn't I have it understand the directory structure and the complete file
// listing of the HVSID collection?!  mohahahaha.. oh the possibilities.. an 11,000 file, 30,000+
// song SID jukebox.  <grin>

// This is for MIDI -- 70x45 is a nice arrangement with all the buttons and the location bar.
// 285 for the full width, although the volume control and mute buttons will do nothing (perhaps
// because they are controlled by the embed command).
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * song.length);
document.write("<DL>\n");
document.write("<EMBED SRC="+song[index]+" WIDTH='70' HEIGHT='45' AUTOSTART='FALSE' LOOP='TRUE' BGCOLOR='#000000'>");
-->
</SCRIPT>

<!--
// This is for SID -- keep in mind that the " will have to be replaced by ' in most cases.. careful!
// Furthermore, I will want to change the width/height functions to fit the "Sidplay activated"
// text.
<EMBED SRC="Injection.sid" TYPE="audio/x-sidtune" FREQUENCY="44100" BITS="16" STEREO="TRUE PANNING=2" SURROUND="TRUE" HIDDEN="TRUE">


SIDPlug only gives the little "SIDPlug activated." black text on a white background.

it does not change when it's made bigger, but does get chopped off when it is made smaller.
-- I am not sure, but it might force text lower if the box is made large.
-->