Re: [AL] Sound in Windows

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Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Wait a min I thought after Zasx that Windows sound was fixed but alas I
> > was wrong!!!  Even with the Allegro mixer I still can't play mods like I
> > used to in DOS.  Some do work -- the VERY VERY VERY simple ones... but
> > those with effects just give random screeching noises and high pitches and
> > it sounds VERYbad...  I used DIGI_AUTODETECT and DIGI_DIRECTXAM(0) and
> > neither worked. I thought Allegro's mixer would be able to play the
> > samples looping and bidirectional or whatnot.
> 
> Could you upload one of those mods somewhere and let us know the address ?

Sure.  These were the mods that I used to use in the DOS version of my game
that worked fine, even with the WIP DOS, but not in Windows:

http://www.rit.edu/~jpw9607/music/stellar.s3m
http://www.rit.edu/~jpw9607/music/mobile.s3m

This is a MOD that worked before and still works:

http://www.rit.edu/~jpw9607/music/fletch.mod

As you can see Fletch and the MOD format in general is much simpler and
doesn't really have any effects -- and I guess that's why it works.  mobile
and stellar are more complex.

Gillius
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Okay I compiled the DJGPP version of Allegro 35 and the latest JGMOD and the
files play perfectly in them -- just as they do in my DOS player and in
Winamp.

The Windows version does not work with DIGI_DIRECTAMX(0) or autodetect.

Gillius
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err, i meant before make do make depend, not after
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Subject: [AL] DJGPP Allegro

> Okay I did:
>
> cvs update
> fixdjgpp
> make
>
> and I got:
> Compiling Allegro for djgpp, optimised. Please wait...
>
gcc -DALLEGRO_SRC -Wall -Wno-unused -mpentium -O2 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
> -fo
> mit-frame-pointer -I. -I./include -o obj/djgpp/alleg/poly3d.o -c
src/poly3d.c
> src/poly3d.c:32: obj/djgpp/mmx.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> make.exe: *** [obj/djgpp/alleg/poly3d.o] Error 1
>
>
> I couldn't find any help in readme.dj or faq.txt...
>
> gcc -v:
> Reading specs from c:/djgpp/lib/specs
> gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
>
> make -v:
> GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
>         Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> Report bugs to <bug...@gn...>.
>
>
> The DJGPP website shows these to be the latest versions....  I'm trying to
> compile the DJGPP version so I can test again JGMOD's working under DOS
> because when I switched to the WIP back at like .30 the DOS version worked
but
> Windows did not...  Again I tried Windows with the latest JGMOD and I
modified
> the player to use DIGI_DIRECTAMX(0)...
>
> Gillius
>
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you forgot to do
make depend
before make
you'll need sed (get it in www.delorie.com/djgpp)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gillius" <gi...@we...>
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: [AL] DJGPP Allegro

> Okay I did:
>
> cvs update
> fixdjgpp
> make
>
> and I got:
> Compiling Allegro for djgpp, optimised. Please wait...
>
gcc -DALLEGRO_SRC -Wall -Wno-unused -mpentium -O2 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
> -fo
> mit-frame-pointer -I. -I./include -o obj/djgpp/alleg/poly3d.o -c
src/poly3d.c
> src/poly3d.c:32: obj/djgpp/mmx.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> make.exe: *** [obj/djgpp/alleg/poly3d.o] Error 1
>
>
> I couldn't find any help in readme.dj or faq.txt...
>
> gcc -v:
> Reading specs from c:/djgpp/lib/specs
> gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
>
> make -v:
> GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
>         Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> Report bugs to <bug...@gn...>.
>
>
> The DJGPP website shows these to be the latest versions....  I'm trying to
> compile the DJGPP version so I can test again JGMOD's working under DOS
> because when I switched to the WIP back at like .30 the DOS version worked
but
> Windows did not...  Again I tried Windows with the latest JGMOD and I
modified
> the player to use DIGI_DIRECTAMX(0)...
>
> Gillius
>
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I guess so. I always wondered how it was intended to work. The 
docs only mention a function that gets a callback 256 times, 
which could probably just as easily be 10 or 10,000 times. 
Makecol8 doesn't mention any palette limitations either.

I guess the rgb tables were only intended to map to palette 
slots above 0. (to keep users from accidentally making holes in 
their sprites while remapping, I assume. it is interesting that 
0 is not automatically mapped to 0 - sort of inconsistent)

Thanks for the reply.