On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:15:54PM +0100, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:
> turns out that my system only locks up if patches are loaded before the
> game starts, so I tried LSL2 and KQ4 (which don't use patch.001,
Hmm. The patch needs to load before the game starts! Becauxe the
sound server is in another process, the main game loop has no way of
knowing that it needs to wait for the sound server to finish
initializing. It seemed like the best place to do the dump.
> However, both title songs appeared to continute playing even after they
> should have finished; there may be a small bug in looping.
Hmm. That I'm not so sure about -- (I still haven't hooked it up to my
MT32 yet, so sho wknows...) I think it has to do with the way th eeound
events are processed by the main game loop; ie asynchronously.
Perhaps it's time I resurrect the pthread sound server. :)
> Also, I noticed that HQ didn't crash; it didn't attempt to load patches,
> either. This may be related to the open problem of HQ possibly detecting
> the audio device in some way, as some songs appear to be stored twice for
> different output devices (below 100 for most synths, 100 and above for
> Tandy and PC speaker). This is, of course, just a theory; any thoughts on
> this?
Thie doesn't hold much water IMO, because the sound server is pretty
much hardwired to use patch.001 -- the game itself doesn't know (or
care!) which sound device is being used. Unless I'm really missing
something obvious.
IIRC, *all* SCI games that use the MT32 load something into the synth.
(or at least every MT32 midi file that came of Quest Studio's page has a
sysex bank in there..)
Anyhoo. I'm just glad things work, mostly.
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