Converting Haunted House Program from Prop-1 to a Prop-2

[Spooky Dad]

I have 4 hours before I get on my flight, so here is my report on my crash course of reviewing and tweaking the program to work.  Not sure that I have spent 28 hours yet on this, but I also havn't got all of the props fully hooked up either.  When I get back in 10 days, I will advise on the final outcome.  I ran into two main issues over the weekend.

1.  The first issue is the order in which I connected all of the controllers via the serial link.  The order that finally worked without providing any missed commands was Prop-2 to RC-4 to AP-16+ to DC-16.  I had the AP-16+ last, but it was missing commands so I put it in front of the DC-16.  I am still assuming that since the RC-4 is non-powered, it must go right after the Prop-2 like the Prop-1.

2.  I am confused by how the following command works.  It seems to me that in the Audio_Wait and Check_AP16 subroutines, that if "Playing = No" would be the right selection versus "Playing = Yes", since I want the sequence of events to run for as longas the audio is running.  But I do recognize that with the code the way it currently is, the next prop is available to be tripped as soon as the sequence is through.  When I did change the code to "Playing = No", I typically got hung in the PS_4 (MIB) and PS_5 (CPT) props code.

Audio_Wait:
  DEBUG "start of audio wait", CR, LF
  DO
    PAUSE 100
    GOSUB Check_AP16
    IF (Playing = Yes) THEN EXIT
    DEBUG "in audio wait loop", CR, LF
  LOOP
  DEBUG "out of audio wait", CR, LF
  PAUSE 5000
  RETURN

' -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Check_AP16:
  SEROUT Sio, Baud, ["!AP16", %00, "G"]         ' get status
  SERIN  Sio, Baud, [status]
  RETURN

[JonnyMac]

Make sure you have the latest firmware in the AP-16+; we extended the serial buffer so that it could better ignore other commands coming down the buss.

You're right about the Playing = No being correct for that; I rewrote that from a manual loop (that used GOTO) and forgot to update that line for the new syntax.  Sorry.  You will probably have to review how that subroutine is used now.