OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS: WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

Some of you young folks been saying to me Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'?" How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That ain't so wonderful either. Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. - Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 -- July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops

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SOURCE CODE ()

DEFINE STRING SPACE 512
DEFINE STRING COUNT 64
DEFINE TASK COUNT 2

TILEMAP ENABLE(16)

COLOR BORDER WHITE

CLS WHITE

soundtrack := LOAD MUSIC("what_a_wonderful_world.mid")

MUSIC soundtrack

PARALLEL PROCEDURE rotatingEarth ON VIC20

	earth := LOAD IMAGES("earth_128x128_2colors.gif") FRAME SIZE AUTO

	POSITIVE CONST centerX = ( SCREEN WIDTH - 128 ) \ #2
	POSITIVE CONST frameMax = FRAMES(earth) - 1
	
	DIM frame AS BYTE
	DIM t AS WORD
	DIM delay AS WORD
	
	t = TIMER
	delay = ( TICKS PER SECOND / 5 )
	
	DO
	
		WAIT WHILE ( TIMER - t ) < delay
		
		t = TIMER
		
		PUT IMAGE earth FRAME frame AT centerX, 0
		ADD frame, 1, 0 TO frameMax
		
	LOOP

END PROC

PARALLEL PROCEDURE printLyrics ON VIC20

	DIM line AS BYTE
	DIM t AS WORD
	DIM delay AS WORD
	
	t = TIMER
	delay = 2 * TICKS PER SECOND
	
	DO

		WAIT WHILE ( TIMER - t ) < delay

		t = TIMER

		LOCATE 0, SCREEN ROWS - 2
		CLINE
		LOCATE 0, SCREEN ROWS - 3
		CLINE
		
		INK RED
		
		SELECT CASE line
			CASE 0
				CENTER "I see trees of green";
			CASE 1			
				CENTER "Red roses too";
			CASE 2
				CENTER "I see them bloom";
			CASE 3
				CENTER "For me and you";
			CASE 4
				CENTER "And I think to myself";
			CASE 5
				CENTER "What a wonderful world!";
			CASE 7
				CENTER "I see skies of blue";
			CASE 8
				CENTER "And clouds of white";
			CASE 9
				CENTER "The bright blessed day";
			CASE 10
				CENTER "The dark sacred night";
			CASE 11
				CENTER "And I think to myself";
			CASE 12
				CENTER "What a wonderful world";
			CASE 13
				CENTER "The colors of the rainbow";
			CASE 14
				CENTER "So pretty in the sky";
			CASE 15
				CENTER "Are also on the faces";
			CASE 16
				CENTER "Of people going by";
			CASE 17
				CENTER "I see friends shaking hands";
			CASE 18
				CENTER "Saying, How do you do?";
			CASE 19
				CENTER "They're really saying";
			CASE 20
				CENTER "I love you...";
			CASE 21
				CENTER "I hear babies cry";
			CASE 22
				CENTER "I watch them grow";
			CASE 23
				CENTER "They'll learn much more";
			CASE 24
				CENTER "Than I'll ever know";
			CASE 26
				CENTER "And I think to myself";
			CASE 27
				CENTER "What a wonderful world";
			CASE 28
				CENTER "Yes, I think to myself";
			CASE 30
				CENTER "What a wonderful world";
			CASE 32
				CENTER "Ooh, yes...";
		ENDSELECT
		
		INC line
		
	LOOP

END PROC

SPAWN rotatingEarth ON VIC20
SPAWN printLyrics ON VIC20

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VIC-20

In order to compile the example, type this command on the command line:

Linux

ugbc.vic20 -O prg -o contrib_what_a_wonderful_world.prg contrib_what_a_wonderful_world.bas

Windows

ugbc.vic20.exe -O prg -o contrib_what_a_wonderful_world.prg contrib_what_a_wonderful_world.bas

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