Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 16:05:43 -0400
From: Cuthalion / Sliced Bread <enrico AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
To: alh AT engr DOT engr DOT uark DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Gravis UltraSound Library

AL>     As far as multiple sound modules, I don't know that much about sound
AL> card programming in general (just now learning GUS), but I would like to
AL> integrate work already done by the author of sblaster.zip and Chris 
AL> Christensen's libgame.a, but again, I'll need some help getting it 
AL> taylored to playing modules.  How different is SB1.0 comparted to 
AL> wavetable?
   God.  It's a world of difference.  The SB 1.0 has only one channel of digital
playback, so the CPU must mix all of the audio that is put through it in order
to simulate the 4 channels (or whatever) that the mod file wants.

AL>     Anyway, I need beta testers for this prerelase, so let me know if
AL> you  have a GUS and would be willing to test/work on it...
   YES!  I'd *love* to.  I gave GUS programming a try.  But my MOD loader 
never worked properly, and I never got the GUS IRQ code working either.
(Hooking the timer IRQ isn't such an awful thing, though.)  (I never bothered
figuring out DMA.  I poked the samples into GRAM byte by byte.  Worked pretty
well, though.  (Except that I accidentally incremented my GRAM pointer twice
per sample, which REALLY screwed things up a bit... :)
   But yes, I will be more than willing to beta-test it.  I do have a GUS and
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