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Flex to Flash IDE conversion of the amazing 8Bitboy project, with an extra example, yipee !

Shame on you if you had a Atari ST or an Amiga and still not know the 8bitboy project !

The crazy man Andre Michelle stroke again with this amazing player which can play mods/xm modules from your dusty shells.

His work is simply amazing : modules transcriptions, wav cenverter, effects .... and even a nice player

The project is opensource, http://8bitboy.popforge.de/

but was developed in Flex which leads to some errors under Flash IDE.

That is why i took time to make it work by modifying some bunch of code. Thanks to samyStudio and some tricks on the web, i did it.

Basically, the player has private function and private variables, so to handle the spectrum externally, i added 2 arrays to that we can play with it :

• player.spectrum.aSpectrumValue : which returns an array with current spectrum graphical values
• player.spectrum.aInstantValue : which returns an array with real sound values

I also turned the player commands function from internal to public, so that you can control the player from your own application.

As an example of the spectrum possibilities, i made a fast blured circle effect :

sources available here

enjoy !