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Started by russellman October 25, 2001 10:22 AM

2 comments, last by russellman 22 years, 8 months ago

russellman

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October 25, 2001 10:22 AM

I wount to add sound in a linux consale game. I wount the sound effects to play at the same time as the background misic is playing. I have used /dev/dsp for sound efects but Can not figerout how to get music. Gary Russell ghrussel@swbell.net

Gary Russell (ISSW)ghrussel@swbell.net

Prosper/LOADED

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October 25, 2001 11:08 AM

FMOD is an excellent sound/music API and now works under Linux. Check it at http://www.fmod.org

LearFox

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October 26, 2001 05:03 AM

YIFF was one of the original sound servers
evolved on Linux. It''s the most stable there
is and documented.

http://wolfpack.twu.net/YIFF/

Tara Milana - WP Entertainmenthttp://wolfpack.twu.net/Comp graphics artist and programmer.

Biased turkey

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October 26, 2001 12:58 PM

I''m a newbie games programmer with Linux, using the SDL ( Simple Directmedia Layer ) API. It has sound capability ( so far I just used it to play .wav files ) and I would suggest you to visit their website.
They are at :
http://www.libsdl.org/.

I hope this helps.