I came from read your conments 5 years after!, thanks a lot. PacData was a funny game, one of these days i will re-work on it. My web doesnt work, you can find me here: claudionervi [at] gmail

In a monophonic sinthesizer, If we connect the [notein] directly to a [mtof] and then to an oscilator, the effect is not always as expected. Sometimes the note off message turn off a different note that we would like.

The system should store the penultimate key pressed, and play it again when release the last one. But in some cases the player can also release that penultimate key (while the last key is still pressed) and the priority should transferred to the antepenultimate key... and so on.

So, we need a patch which can memorize at least the 10 last notes and make this work for us.

notein_mono.pd

The explanation of how does it works will be uploaded soon in my youtube channel:

I'd like to introduce my last summer project: PAC - DATA. Pac Data is a Pac Man game programmed in Pure Data, without using additional libraries but the data structures included in Pd Vanilla. It is not complete yet, but it was a good practice in the syntax of the data structures. Any errors and suggestions are welcome.
This is the Link to Download ,into the folder, the Principal Patch is PAC-DATA.pd (uper case):

http://claudionervi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/PAC-DATA.zip

see you!

www.claudionervi.com

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/PAC-DATA_v.1.1.zip

Thanks for your comments and good vibrations;), I'm very glad you like it.

Now I'm needing a little help with the sound. As you seen, I tried with samples of the original Pac Man, and I would now synthesize the music. I think it's relatively simple to make the music itself, but I would like to sound really vintage, like an 8-bit system, or something. Where can I find information about old video game music synthesized with PD?

what about - moocow/pdstring externals for OSX how can i get it??