Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" Organization: INTI To: gah AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz), djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:03:39 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Alternatives to Allegro... In-reply-to: <3577e305.3597679@news.jet.es> Precedence: bulk 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/ > > ------------------------------------ 0 -------------------------------- Visit my home page: http://set-soft.home.ml.org/ or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT usa DOT net set AT computer DOT org ICQ: 2951574 Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA TE: +(541) 759 0013