Reviews

Christmas Tunes featured on the cover tape of Your Sinclair in 1992 and features eight different...errr...Christmas tunes for your delectation.

It requires a 128k Spectrum to play but frankly it is a good example if you were looking for one of how limited the Spectrum sometimes seems musically compared to the SID-chip powered Commodore 64.

Listening to the tunes, I was surprised to realise it was 128k only, which I can only presume is because there are two, count 'em, two different melody lines playing at once.

It would be cruel, and flat out wrong to suggest this was the best a Spectrum could do musically with 128k at it's disposal. But certainly it is programs like this that helped create the impression that the Speccy was a poor beast musically when compared to the mighty C64.

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I was searching for Spectrum programs related to Christmas and have found that one. It's very poor and plays only a handful of very basic tunes. Written entirely in BASIC, its listing could be shown to teach the usage of 'PLAY' statement. Nevertheless, as a standalone program, 'Christmas Tunes' isn't good enough.

Not that bad !

Considering the limitations of the Spectrum this BASIC program leaves a smile on my face . :)


1,5 out of 5 .


ps - merry xmas to all ! ho, ho, ho !