From:	JP Morris <jmorris AT calderauk DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Sound libs 4 DJGPP
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:02:40 +0100
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Michael Tanczos wrote:
> 
> Doesn't anybody know of a good sound library that plays
> XM's *well* under DOS?  I tried JGMOD and mikmod, but need
> something better.  Send me a copy of your post by email
> if you know of one.

The only other sound libs that I know of for DJGPP (that work well) are
SEAL and MIDAS.

I don't like SEAL very much, it's difficult to run in a stable manner
and it is very hard to make a setup program for.

Look for a link to SEAL at:
http://brennan.home.ml.org/djgpp

MIDAS is available from http://www.housemarque.com.
Any version after 0.6 will support DJGPP, but only 0.7 has the source
code.  Source for later versions may be available upon request, since
they claim it is still open-source.  I haven't tried yet.

MIDAS as it stands does not support loading from file offsets, or .WAV
files.  However, I've hacked 0.7 to manage both of these, if you're
interested.

It's difficult to recompile the thing in pure DOS, you'll need a very
good DPMI server.  If you work in a win95 DOS box, that should be ok.

There is also another library called JUDAS, which is for watcom.
It could be made to run under DJGPP with some work.  Since it only
supports GUS and Soundblaster I didn't explore this very far.

> 
> ---
> Michael Tanczos
> Game Programming '98
> http://www.gameprog.com

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