From:	Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Anybody used MikAlleg?
Date:	Thu, 05 Dec 1996 03:47:39 -0800
Organization:	Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, (ACCU)
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To:	Calvin French <french AT freenet DOT calgary DOT ab DOT ca>
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Calvin French wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering how it is in terms of reliability, etc. Also, I am wondering
> exactly about MikMak, or whatever. Is it free, too, or is it a commercial
> lib? The reason I ask is that I seem to remember MikMak or MikMod or
> whatnot as being commercial, but in MikAlleg I found NO information about
> it at ALL... Please reply to my email at (frenchc AT cadvision DOT com) because I
> am not always able to read news groups unless I log in here, and logging
> in here is a pain in the arse :) Anyways, thanks...

MikMod is shareware; permission is required for commercial use, but noncommercial
usage is free.
I've used MikMod and MikAlleg, and have on request posted a small GUI mod-player
using MikAlleg here on comp.os.msdos.djgpp some time ago; it's quite reliable
under DOS, but really crappy under Win95; it croaks Windows 3.11 on my machine.
I've never been able to figure out why, 'cos AFAIK it doesn't hook the timer
interrupt at all -- it's a poll-based modplayer, which means that the mixing
routines have to be called in the main loop, and your main loop has to be
called 12 or more times a second. Still, if you use it under DOS alone 
it's really very nice. Great mixing quality, too.

SB 0.5  is much more reliable, although the code is buggy --  I recieved bugfixes
from a very nice guy here, can't remember his name,-- tho' I'd be willing to
upload the bugfixed code to x2ftp or somewhere if there's any interest.
(The bugs are mainly in mod looping and soundcard initialization.
BTW MikMod has some "features" that have to be removed if ya want to use it
too.Specifically the instrument dump in the s3m loader).
It plays only mods (tho' x2ftp has utilities to convert 8 channel s3m's,mtm's
and xm's to mods); the sound quality under Win95 is erratic, as it hooks the
timer interrupt and gets whatever Windows chooses to give it. Sometimes
it sounds good, sometimes scratchy. No rhyme or reason to it under Win95.
But it's damn easy to use: simply load a mod ,play it, and forget about it.

That was it. Hope it helped.

Elliott

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