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musserver 1.0: Linux Doom music server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Sep 3 21:27:42 1995
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 17:53:58 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Mike Heasley <mike@Pandora.ST.HMC.Edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Subject: musserver 1.0: Linux Doom music server
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
Keywords: linux doom music voxware
Announcing musserver 1.0
I've just completed version 1.0 of musserver, the Linux Doom music server.
It can be found at the following sites:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/doom/musserver.tgz
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/utils/linux/musserver.tgz
ftp://pandora.st.hmc.edu/pub/linux/musserver.tgz
Until the new version gets moved from the incoming directories, an older
version of musserver may be at the top 2 locations above. Thus I recommend
grabbing it from the last site, which is my personal machine.
If you have downloaded version 0.99 to help testing, I thank you. But I
encourage you to get version 1.0, as it contains a few important bug fixes.
This version does not include GUS support. I plan to start working on it
soon, but may not have much time due to the start of school. I don't have a
GUS, so I need testers. Email me if you're interested.
The first two sections of the README follow:
1. Introduction
When Linux Doom was originally released, the music support had been
left out. Musserver, a companion to Id's sndserver, provides full music
support for doom. Its behavior is similar to, if not indistinguishable from,
that of the DOS version of Doom. Musserver plays the music for Doom via the
/dev/sequencer interface. It automatically changes music whenever
appropriate, and loops songs while the user is in a level. It also changes
music volume according to the "MUSIC VOLUME" slider in Doom.
With previous versions of musserver, the user was required to manually
send a command to musserver whenever music was supposed to change. This
version fully integrates musserver with the Doom executable. A binary patch
(written by Steffen Winterfeld) for the Doom executable allows Linux Doom to
automatically notify musserver whenever the music selection or volume should
change.
2. System requirements
In order to use this version of musserver, you must have the
following:
- A general midi synth device (SB16 Midi, MPU-401, 6850 UART, etc) or
FM synth device (Adlib, OPL3, etc). As far as I know, no Gravis
UltraSound card will work at this time. I will begin working on GUS
support as soon as version 1.0 is released.
- A version of Linux capable of running Doom (late 1.1.x, 1.2.x, and
1.3.x should work; SystemV IPC support is required)
- For general midi users: Voxware 2.9 and up
For FM synth users: Voxware 3.0.1 and up
(Voxware is the kernel's sound driver)
- Linux Doom version 1.8. The included Doom executable patch will
work only with this version of Doom. It may be used with or without
the Ultimate LinuxDoom patch (also by Steffen Winterfeld).
Please email me with any questions, bug reports/fixes, or comments.
Mike Heasley
mheasley@hmc.edu
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