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Music server for Linux Doom, version 0.99
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Aug 12 16:02:17 1995
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 17:47:39 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Mike Heasley <mike@Pandora.ST.HMC.Edu>
Subject: Music server for Linux Doom, version 0.99
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
Keywords: linux doom music voxware
Announcing musserver 0.99
This should be the last "beta" release of musserver before version 1.0 is
released officially. Musserver has been fully integrated into the Doom
executable (thanks to a patch by Steffen Winterfeld), as much as sndserver is.
Countless improvements have been made over the previous official release,
version 0.90. Any bugs that are found in this version will be fixed in 1.0.
No new features will be added. If I receive no bug reports within about a
week, I will upload 1.0 to the apropriate ftp sites and make another
announcement.
Version 0.99 is available only from my personal machine:
ftp://pandora.st.hmc.edu/pub/linux/musserver.tgz
If you are interested in using musserver, please download this version to help
test it (I have done as much testing as I can).
The first two sections of the README file 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 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)
- A recent version of Voxware, the kernel's sound driver (2.9 and up).
If you get digital sound in Doom, your version of Voxware should be
recent enough.
- A general midi synth device (SB16 Midi, MPU-401, 6850 UART, etc) or
FM synth device (Adlib, OPL3, etc)
Mike Heasley
mheasley@hmc.edu
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