Stas Sergeev wrote:
The current system seems to work pretty well for me
It doesn't even work with ALSA.
Also, your AWE probably have the
hardware mixing, but for those
with the cheap sound cards, it
is not possible to get the midi
together with sound (provided they
do not have the wave-table too).
My AWE doesn't have hardware mixing, but the wavetable indeed allows me
to have both at the same time. My laptop does have hardware mixing, but
it isn't very fast (Pentium III 500MHz, 128MB RAM), so I don't know how
fast a softsynth will work.
I myself can't get this to work on
my pc-speaker, and that really annoyed
me enough to start writing the new
code. Now as for the DOS programs:
FT2 doesn't work, sound in DOOM
stutters, sound in Aladdin have a
big latencies, etc. It is not very
good.
Yes I noticed your pc-speaker driver in ALSA :)
Is the goal really to get full sound and music from Dosemu through a
plain pc-speaker?
I know that the current sound support has many problems. I used to have
many problems getting sound to work at all on real hardware though and
several games that Dosemu runs with good sound, do not work in MS
Windows 9x with sound for example. Which is why I am considering the
Dosemu sound to work pretty well for me. I know there are many problem
with it though and having even better sound support would be great of
course!
I was able to fix the latency problem in Aladdin btw by changing a value
in my dosemu.conf. I believe I have also mailed about that at some point.
While OPL3 emulation would be really nice, wouldn't it be better to
implement support for real OPL3 chips and emulate and OPL3 at another
level in the system if one isn't availlable?
Problematic. Access to the real OPL3
will require root or the kernel module.
And then you can just use $_ports to
get this working that way, no need to
write anything (yes, I know it doesn't
work for you right now, but thats a
different problem). So the real value
is to have the good OPL3 emulation.
I understand the current OPL3 modules aren't suitable to be used in this
case? I personally indeed do not really care about needing root access,
so a working solution using $_ports would work for me. Would you
recommend sending an e-mail to the ALSA mailing list about this?
Then also other
applications such as FreeSCI and
ScummVM would be able to make use of
it.
They all use the MAME OPL3 emulation
engine. I don't think they'll want
something else. And really, having
the OPL3 emulation system-wide doesn't
sound sane to me - this is too specific
to the old-PC emulators.
OK, that indeed makes sense. I could imagine having a system-wide
library though (AdPlug maybe?) so that it would be more easy to maintain
the emulator.
About the new system. If the new code isn't comparable to the current
code yet, maybe release 1.4 of Dosemu should still contain the old code?
Noone knows when 1.4 will be released.
I'm really looking forward to the new stuff.
You will get it and the sound code
is not even the main part.
Woa, I'm really curious now.... :D
Thanks again for all the good stuff!
Julius
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