Re: [AL]: Windows 95 timing

[Thomas D Y. <mbc...@ma...>]

Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> Now we only have two questions remaining to answer:
> 
> - Why was this option turned on? It is off by default, and hardly seems
> like something that you would have accidentally turned on. Do you by any
> chance remember changing it yourself? If not there must be some other
> software package that alters it during the install, which is not a nice
> thing for it to do. I'd very much like to figure out why this is
> happening, and in particular why it is only over the last couple of days
> that so many people have started mentioning it.
> 
> - How can we detect Windows, even though it is lying to our detection
> code? I've tried a couple of methods to do this by detecting that the
> PIT is malfunctioning at a hardware level, and although I can make this
> work correctly on my machine, none of them really feel solid enough for
> me to be confident that they won't fall over in practice. I'm fairly
> sure that one of the VDS interrupts can be used to spot Windows, but
> this is really getting silly: it's like a spying game where the OS is
> trying to hide, but I still have to spot that it is there. What a waste
> of time.

I haven't changed it myself recently, but I might have done some time 
in the past. I don't remember altering the command prompt properties. 
Conversely, I don't know why a Windows program would alter the 
settings for a command prompt it isn't likely to use. I did install 
some new hardware and several Dos programs after that, but all the 
Allegro 3.0 programs worked fine. Although I have Windows 95, my 
sister uses Windows 98 and no problems have appeared with 
programs using the timer on that system.



Thought for the day:
    The large house laughingly jumped on the crazed stoat.

Tom York
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Does anyone know how to play 2 copies of the same sound and then adjust 
the frequency of the sounds individually?
It's for a racing game i'm working on, where I need to have 2 engine 
sounds going at the same time.
Thanx.

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Does anyone know how to play 2 copies of the same sound and then adjust 
the frequency of the sounds individually?
It's for a racing game i'm working on, where I need to have 2 engine 
sounds going at the same time.
Thanx.

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>Does anyone know how to play 2 copies of the same sound and then adjust
>the frequency of the sounds individually?
>It's for a racing game i'm working on, where I need to have 2 engine
>sounds going at the same time.
>Thanx.


You need to use the lower digital sound routines then just like JGMOD. You
need to check the allegro doc.