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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA27399 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 5 May 1995 00:13:14 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Fri, 5 May 1995 08:12:46 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA13749; Fri, 5 May 95 08:17:16 +0100 Message-Id: <9505050717.AA13749@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Things I would like to see E/L In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 1995 15:25:19 EDT." <9505041925.AA06868@opus.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 08:17:15 +0100 From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk In your message (Thu, 04 May 1995 15:25:19 EDT), Jered wrote: > >> 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.