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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: gah AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:03:39 +0000
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to Allegro...
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gah AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz) wrote:

Sorry Grzegorz I must correct some things (no las puedo dejar pasar ;-)

> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 00:40:06 +0100, "BGillhespy" 
> >Anyway, I've tried using the Allegro functions, but they seem to loose huge
> >amounts from the low and high end of the audio spectrum.
> >Allegro turned it into nothing more than a glorified fart.
> >
> >Is this an Allegro problem, or just a DOS problem?  The sample sounds
> >perfect when played though windows software.
> 
> There's nothing wrong with Allegro. The problem is that if you don't
> write a configuration file for your sound card using the setup tool,
> Allegro will attempt to use what I call "the easiest frequency", which
> I believe is somewhere around 22Hz or even lower with some sound

22 KHz no 22 Hz, 22 Hz is a VERY low frequency ;-)

> cards.
> 
> Of course you need 44Mhz.

Now you passed to the other side 44 MHz is RF ;-) is 44 KHz
 
> Have you tried the library libamp? It reproduces mp3 files, with the
> same sound quality.

No, it truncates the sound to 8 bits, it lose a lot of quality. I was talking 
about it with Shawn.

>  How do they do that? Easy. They put in the
> program's directory a file named Allegro.cfg with the following
> content:
> 
> [sound]
> sb_freq = 45454
> 
> Hopefully it will also work with your program.
> 
> - Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - gah AT jet DOT es - http://web.jet.es/gregorio/
> - Gogosoftware - http://welcome.to/gogosoftware/
> 
> 
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