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From: jkeegan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Keegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Simultaneously played digitized sounds
Keywords: sound
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Date: 2 Jul 90 05:35:09 GMT
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Reply-To: jkeegan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Keegan)
Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept
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I am currently writing a game where simultaneous sounds will be necessary.
I've observed that Beyond Dark Castle and SoundEdit 2.0 (two programs that
I have seen do this) do not call DoSndCommand, and must be either using the
old StartSound commands or the actual sound driver itself. I need to know
basically where to start if I am going to have to use the old sound driver.
How is it done? How can I play two sounds that I have in some format
(for example without Snd-type headers, like SoundWave resources used to be).

I THOUGHT about using the new sound manager and having my completion
routine cycle through a sound, copying 512 bytes at a time and playing
them as soundWAVES, and actually wrote code, but it sounded scratchy and 
cut up (like I thought).  Any ideas?

..Jeff Keegan  jkeegan@hawk.ulowell.edu  [129.63.1.2]

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