Mini vMac

Stéphan Kochen reports:

"Attached is a patch against Mini vMac 2.6.1 that
implements ALSA sound support for Linux systems as per
this ToDo item:

'(X) Sound for X, to match Macintosh version. I haven't
looked into this at all yet. I think that sound isn't
part of the X protocol, which means it can't be done in
a way that works on all X systems.'

Unfortunately, as the ToDo says, this won't work
everywhere. It's sufficient for my case, though. :)
Perhaps Mini vMac can be ported to SDL?

I tested this patch both on my on-board AC97 chip as on
the SoundBlaster Live! I have installed, and it seems
to work pretty well. It may not be perfect though, as
ALSA seems to have a complete and utter lack of good
documentation. After getting this to work, most of it
seems to make sense though.

Also, I have no idea how the build system works.
There's three changes that have to be made to get this
to work:
- MySoundEnabled should be defined to 1, of course.
- alsa/asoundlib.h needs to be included.
- '-lasound' needs to be passed to the linker.

Finally, I would've been more comfortable sending this
to a public mailing list or the like, why are you not
using any of the SourceForge services for Mini vMac?"