In the last two weeks, I have achieved the following in my quest to finish MONOTONE before arriving at Block Party:
- Gotten the flu (took up three days right there)
- Wrote a completely customizable abstract input routine (complete with keyboard configuration utility — with tipsheet writer!) because some composers will throw a hissy fit if the basic interface isn’t exactly like ${FAVORITE_TRACKER}
- Wrote a keyboard interrupt handler (complete with human-readable labels so that “410Ah” reads like “Ctrl+LShift+Alt+F7”) because you never know when some hissy-fit composer will demand the use of Ctrl+LShift+Alt+F7
- Wrote instantaneous-fast (not an exaggeration) text routines, including multiple virtual screens that use hardware video pages where available
…and I haven’t sounded a single note yet. But you can actually watch the pieces slowly come together now, and it’s pretty damn fun writing from scratch what is essentially turning out to be a miniature operating system.
Next up: The main framework request handler/dispatcher and a finalized abstract Song object (and MONOTONE-specific descendant). Hopefully both tomorrow night, or I’ll have to stop development to work on my presentation :-/
Oldskooler Ramblings 