Re: [tuxracer-devel] Greetings, and a question.

[Jasmin P. <jf...@mu...>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Steve Baker wrote:

> I suspect that either MikMod doesn't do that - or
> perhaps that it uses some kind of dead-reckoning
> mecthod to guess how much to send.  A small error
> in that estimate could build up over several seconds
> and cause the problem I saw with glTron.

I hope that problem has been fixed in SDL_Mixer -- but I don't know for
sure.

> Joseph Toscano wrote:
> >  Question, though: The Adonthell team is writing
> > Adonthell using SDL. The people who wrote SDL integrated MikMod into a
> > seperate add-on lib, SDL_Mixer. It works fine. Not sure what lib you're
> > using for Tux Racer, of course. I wonder if MikMod can be rolled into
> > that library somehow.
> 
> Perhaps.  I'm not sure it would help with MikMod's lockup problem
> though.

Hmm.  I guess I'll just have to ask them...

> Well, I do plan to add more music formats to PLIB *sometime* - but
> I only have so many hours in the day.

Tell me about it! :-/

Jasmin

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