From: gah AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to Allegro...
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:04:40 GMT
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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
cards.

Of course you need 44Mhz.

Have you tried the library libamp? It reproduces mp3 files, with the
same sound quality. 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.

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