1. Background Speaker Sound?
Whilst trying to add some decent non-SB sound effects to Jiri's cool
Aliens game (My high score: 978ish). I realised that Euphoria can't play
through the PC speaker "in the background," so the game 'hangs'
temporarily while the effect plays.
I know for a fact that QBasic (hmm...) has the ability to play through the
speaker while something else is going on. Any chance Euphoria could be
made to do this?
Is this a job for a little assembler code perchance?
Carl
PS: The programs I have on my web page are full of bugs. New versions
coming tomorrow I hope...
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2. Re: Background Speaker Sound?
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Carl R. White wrote:
>
> Whilst trying to add some decent non-SB sound effects to Jiri's cool
> Aliens game (My high score: 978ish). I realised that Euphoria can't play
> through the PC speaker "in the background," so the game 'hangs'
> temporarily while the effect plays.
>
> I know for a fact that QBasic (hmm...) has the ability to play through the
> speaker while something else is going on. Any chance Euphoria could be
> made to do this?
I break up my pc speaker sound effects into discrete parts and play part
of the sfx each frame. At the beginning of frame processing for an event
(like an explosion, say) I'll stick the right value in sound() to start it
playing, then sound(0) at the end of that process or frame (depending on
sound priority) a few microseconds later, then go on. When your program
is frame based (I call them Simultaneous Event Driven Programs), your
sound effects also need to be frame based. Do what you can while you can.
=)
Michael Packard
Lord Generic Productions
lgp at exo.com http://exo.com/~lgp
A Crash Course in Game Design and Production
http://exo.com/~lgp/euphoria
