[freesci-develop] Re: cvs: cvsuser

[Christoph Reichenbach]

Hi,

> Anyhoo, give this a shot folks. I don't have ALSA at all, so it's
> possible this won't even compile.. but it should be okay.   :)

Should be fixed now. The compile, at least; sound output is too slow on my
system (at least if I flush explicitly).

> Whew. Next up, configurability, and then GM mapping.   Any idea if the
> patch.003 (adlib) has ever been decoded?

I don't think so, but my guess would be that it simply contains register
values for the OPL/2 chip.

> I think it wouldn't be too
> hard to get a FM synth emulator hooked into FreeSCI,

There is one in MAME (GPL'd) we could use.

> and it would
> probably sound better than a MT->GM translation.

Well, I'd disagree about that ;-)
Except for sound effects. I guess that most MT-32 sound effects can't be
mapped to GM easily. However, the results Rickard managed to get with the
MT-32 translation layer (still visible in sciunpack -c) were pretty good,
at least for music.

BTW, adding PC beeper support (XChangeKeyboardControl(), XBell()) might be
a nice thing, too.


llap,
 Christoph