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Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 9:09 #1

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Hi,

I'm considering writing a review of Tetris Queen for my blog. The game looks nice and it plays well, but sadly I can't make the music to play in the background. Have done the in-game sound test and that works for sound effects.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... me/puzzle/tetrisqueen.lha

Anyone knows how to get the music playing? Thanks in advance.

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Maijestro

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 18:28 #2

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@AmigaOldskoolerQuote:

AmigaOldskooler wrote:Hi,

I'm considering writing a review of Tetris Queen for my blog. The game looks nice and it plays well, but sadly I can't make the music to play in the background. Have done the in-game sound test and that works for sound effects.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... me/puzzle/tetrisqueen.lha

Anyone knows how to get the music playing? Thanks in advance.

The game wants "liballegro.so" where can I get this library ?

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joerg

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 18:38 #3

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The game wants "liballegro.so" where can I get this library ?

Best source for OS4 software is usually os4depot.net, the 2nd result searching for "allegro" on it is http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... ment/game/allegro_sdk.lha which includes the file "Local/newlib/lib/liballegro.so", which you'll have to copy into SOBJS:.

I din't test it and don't know if there may be other, incompatible versions of liballegro.so somewhere else, but worth a try.

Raziel

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 19:02 #4

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You shouldn't need to "get" it!

Once a program/game needs third party .so's it should *always* be distributed with exactly that...no user should be forced to hunt for dependancies, it's bad practice doing otherwise...just my 2ct's

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Maijestro

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 19:17 #5

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Raziel wrote:@Maijestro

You shouldn't need to "get" it!

Once a program/game needs third party .so's it should *always* be distributed with exactly that...no user should be forced to hunt for dependancies, it's bad practice doing otherwise...just my 2ct's

I see it the same way you do, it's not user-friendly to have to look for dependencies yourself. Even in the readme there is no information about where you can get these libraries.

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Maijestro

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 19:59 #6

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@AmigaOldskooler @joerg

Thanks for the tip with the library it works.

I come to the same conclusion as you, apparently this game doesn't support background music. The loading times are also a bit long.

Conclusion: Poorly implemented

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AmigaOldskooler

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 20:59 #7

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@Maijestro

Thanks for testing, Maijestro! Too bad it does not have any of the background music. Even though it takes a bit of time to load, the game itself (once you start playing) is very good in my opinion.

I did some browsing and the game is supposed to contain music made by Queen, hence the name Tetris Queen! The DOS version has music in MIDI.

https://qtetris.sourceforge.net/

https://dosgames.com/game/tetris-queen/

I will look a bit more into it.

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Raziel

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/11 21:58 #8

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There are core music/midi pieces in src/data

They have been merged into the .dat file, so they are there...
Though the program itself is not aware of anything amiga (ahi/camd) and will not be able to play the midi files back whatsoever (unless someone implements camd support)

Too bad the author didn't even bother to add timidity support

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AmigaOldskooler

Re: Tetris Queen

Posted on: 2023/11/12 21:26 #9

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Hi Raziel! Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand why the music won't play. It is a bit strange the author did not include support for this, since part of the reason the game exists is to play the music by Queen.

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