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Re: Things I would like to see E/L
In your message (Thu, 04 May 1995 15:25:19 EDT), Jered wrote:
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>> 1. Move the thing out of Xwindows.. I know this has been suggested already
>> but I think the speed improvement would be really good..
>> There is nothing wrong with the Xwindows version- If I want more
>> speed maybe I just need a faster computer..
>
> This suggestion has appeared many times on this list. I recall Cliff
>saying that the display routines were abstracted enough that this wouldn't
>be too big of a deal. How beneficial would a SVGA lib version be, though?
>I've been very unimpressed by SVGAlib so far, I may have an old version,
>but it won't run in anything but 320x240.
I think SVGALib does significantly higher resolutions these days,
with some chipsets. I have yet to see it use my S3 card properly
though. The version I have at present seems to crash frighteningly
easily, although it *is* quite old.
>> 2. I would really like to see sound- even if it is just sound blaster
>> compatability.. Linux can play midis, waves, mods and several other
>> music formats- sound would be really neat on tetris max and some
>> other games..
>
> I think everyone wants to see sound. :-)
I mentioned to someone at ARDI that a generic /dev/audio interface
would make porting sound to other Unix architectures pretty simple.
ARDI don't want to start getting into individual OS sound capabilities
without imposing huge amounts of new work on themselves.
Tim.
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