Re: [tuxracer-devel] glTron music

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

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Steve Baker wrote:

> Jasmin Patry wrote:
> 
> 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.

0.59 beta (the first version to use SDL) was released on 5 March 2000.

> 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.

Yes, I agree.  I did some digging in SDL and SDL_mixer today and it does
allow you to specify how much data to buffer.  I'm not sure if it allows
you to change that amount at run-time, but that seems to be an
improvement over the libmikmod mixer.  There are potential problems due
to the non-determinism of thread scheduling, but my guess is that in
practical situations this shouldn't be a problem.

One disadvantage of SDL is that it's not as portable as PLIB (Linux is
the only fully supported UNIX-type platform).  I'll look into
integrating the libmikmod code (loaders/players) into SL, if it's
something you'd like to see added to PLIB.

Cheers,
Jasmin

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Jasmin Patry               Master's Student, Dept. of Computer Science
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