luvvyamy: Import from Cheese-E-Pedia revision 274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854

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Import from Cheese-E-Pedia revision 274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854

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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Type
| Programming Systems
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Tags
| Pizza Time Theatre
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Contributors
| sudo-trans-pony, Himitsu, CEC Tinley
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***SongCode* was an animatronic programming system made for Pizza Time Theatre, running from 1978 to 1990.
The first known usage would be at the second location [[San Jose, CA (1371 Kooser Rd)]], with its hardware detailed in the SongCode Control System.
It was used to animate the [[Kooser PTT Show]], [[Cyberamics]], and later [[Rock-afire Explosion]] showtapes throughout the late 80's. The [[Animation Programming System]] (APS) would replace it in 1990, staying as the main programming software till present day.**

== Software ==

The software was written in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture PDP-11 CISC Architecture] for the main PDP-11, and later PDP-11/23, that ran it. Due to the PDP-11 having 16-bit hardware, its engineers were able to expand the unit's memory with an external device to be 32k of onboard memory.
By 1978 most PDP-11 users created programs on Unix 6th Edition, which could mean SongCode was written in the C Language, though the possibility of the program being written in raw Assembly or other languages is still possible.

== Encoding Format ==

The format is believed to be an earlier variation of what would later appear in the [[Studio C 3x DVD + Floppy]] showtape format, being a command-based structure, rather than a snapshot based one.

== Import provenance ==
Imported from [https://github.com/The64thGamer/cheeseepedia/tree/274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854 Cheese-E-Pedia] at source revision <code>274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854</code>. Source material is provided under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0].

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