Re: A89: SndLib Use
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Re: A89: SndLib Use
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>In a message dated 12/01/1998 7:45:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:
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>> Not even possible. That would mean you could only run sound from within
the
>> interrupt and there's no way you create anything except possibly a low
>> frequency doing that.
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>Like I said, that would be extremely difficult to do. However, if Windows
>does can play a WAV file with other programs running, it may be possible,
but
>I'm not sure if it can be done in small enough of a size.
The problem is time, the interrupt doesn't occur often enough to allow
applications to run smoothly as it changes tasks. you would either have
sounds to low pitched to be audible, or really jumpy bits of sound.
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>By the way, what I was talking about was a kernel that would implement
time-
>slicing, in which the kernel determines what runs when. (This is exactly
how
>Windows works, but windows uses a more advanced form of time-slicing)
Multitasking is possible for less intensive applications, but not sound.
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>Daniel Imfeld
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>Daniel Imfeld