Re: [tuxracer-devel] glTron music

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Jasmin Patry wrote:

> > Just curious.  Are you both talking about the latest glTron with SDL?
> > I think Andreas just recently starting using SDL.
> 
> Yes, I am.  My guess from past posts is that Steve has only tried the
> old version that uses libmikmod -- though I'd be very interested to hear
> otherwise.

Erm - I'm not sure - my son and I played it for a while and then dumped it
when the gameplay wore a bit thin.  If the SDL version is under a month
old then we probably have the pre-SDL version.

I presume that since the problem appears to be in MikMod that it would
apply just as much to SDL - but since the symptoms don't show up on
all CPU speeds, it's kinda touchy.
 
> Steve, do you mind if I quote portions of your messages on this topic to
> the SDL/SDL_mixer people?  I'd like to hear what they have to see on the
> topic.

Sure - although I'm sure they are aware of the issues.

The bottom line (for me at least) is that you need to have a call into
the sound generation/mixing stuff to tell it how much it's allowed to
generate ahead of time each time it's called.  Only the application can
know how long that should be.

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