Elenco Snap Circuits SnapMicro ® I Standard - Manual (Page 35)

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After the song is loaded into the wizard, click on the Copy button to open
the copy window.
Answer yes to paste the tune directly into your program or a new program
if one is not open. The following information will now appear in your
program.
'Santa clause is coming to town
tune 0, 4,
($60,$64,$65,$27,$E7,$67,$69,$6B,$00,$C0,$64,$65,$27,$27,$27,$69,$67,$25,$E5,$24,$27,$20,$24,$22,$E5,$2B,$A0,
$60,$64,$65,$27,$E7,$67,$69,$6B,$00,$C0,$64,$65,$27,$27,$27,$69,$67,$25,$E5,$24,$27,$20,$24,$22,$E5,$2B,$80)
The above tune will all be on one line in the program. Close the PICAXE
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Tune Wizard window and run a syntax check that will show the tune
added 85 bytes to the program! OUCH! That is a great deal of memory for
just one tune. Play the tune by clicking the simulate button.
Notice how the first line in the tune above is identical to the line beneath it except for the last note.
Redundancy in programming is a waste of memory. Change the tune section of your program by typing
in or deleting the information on your screen to match the following;
'Santa clause is coming to town reworked
Main : inc b0
tune 0, 4,($60,$64,$65,$27,$E7,$67,$69,$6B,$00,$C0,$64,$65,$27,$27,$27,$69,$67,$25,$E5,$24,$27,$20,$24,$22,$E5,$2B)
if b0 < 2 then
tune 0, 4, ($A0)
goto main
else tune 0, 4,($80)
end if
A syntax check will show this section is 65 bytes, or a savings of 20 bytes of memory. The tune will play
correctly after down load but may have a few pauses when played by the simulator.