[hatari-devel] Issues with DMA sound

[npomarede at corp.free.fr]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Kåre Andersen wrote:

> From legendary STE demomaker/composer Excellence in Art at the dhs
> coding bbs today:
>
> "STE DMA sound is QUITE a bit louder than YM sound in Hatari that on
> the real machine, and instead of having the users complain about my
> music, it'd be nice to at least warn them :-)"
>
> The thread starts here: http://bbs.dhs.nu/coding/index.php?request=3001
>
> Please get involved :)
>
> /Kåre

Well, I can only agree, volume levels are certainly not correct for now, 
but this needs some measurements on real hardware.

For example in the recent and very nice "Another Kid Story" by MJJ, the 
typewriter sample sound used during the scroller is rather ugly under 
Hatari, it nearly masks the ym sound and the final result sounds kinda 
bad.

As for EAI's idea of detecting that the demo is running under Hatari to 
warn the user, I guess it would be better to add a note in Hatari's 
compatibility page.


Nicolas