Looking Back at a 1992 Amstrad CPC Music Encoder

A look back at a 1992 Locomotive BASIC utility I wrote while converting Money Matters from the BBC B to the Amstrad CPC. What began as a quick and dirty way to encode an arrangement of Fiddler on the Roof into three-channel sound turned into a small music compiler, using note parsing, CPC sound periods, and interrupt-driven playback to keep the menu music running smoothly in the background.