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Re: sound / lemmings problem?
In article <01BB0C86.1F8FF660@ppp1.ns.net>, Glenn R. Keyser <GGS@ns.net> wrote:
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>From: Jeremy Ziegler[SMTP:jrzst3+@pitt.edu]
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 1996 2:50 PM
>To: executor@ardi.com
>Subject: sound / lemmings problem?
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>i am still new with executor, but i think i have run into a
>minor problem. first, some background: i am running executor
>through win95 without the dos reboot. here's the deal: i tried
>the lemmigs demo to check my sound and i had 2 things happen.
>1) the sound was very rough. is this normal? (by rough, i
>mean it didn't sound as nice as something in win95).
>I noticed when the emulation is slow sound quality gets a bit rough.
I've had trouble with the sound blanking out when doing heavy disk
accessing. I'm guessing that the sound isn't buffered in advance to the
linux side and that it's Executor that's having trouble multitasking and
not linux (but then what do I expect when running on a 486sx33. I'm
running an 11mhz mac with slow graphics. I'm amazed that it runs word5.1
so well). I figure this is just a speed issue.
>2) whenever a lemmings screen disappeared (say to go to the
>next screen), executor would wait a second and then the screen
>would go black. then for one second (if that) the last screen
>would flash up and then the new screen would appear.
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>If I am thinking of the same problem try setting Animation ON when you press Alt+Shift+5
I've had this trouble in lots of games in both X windows and full screen
mode. I'm guessing that this is a problem with double buffering because
the screen will fade out (using colormap rotation) and then when a new
screen should be flipped on and then the faded in, the old one is still
shown for a sec. This is not a critical bug but annoying. It'd be nice
to see it fixed but not essential.
By the way, does anyone know if any version of Photoshop works under
Executor? I'm doing a demo of Executor for our Atlanta Linux Expo in
April (mail me for details) and I'd like to show Photoshop running.
thanks
-joshy
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