[hatari-devel] Issues with DMA sound

[Anders Eriksson]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, npomarede at corp.free.fr wrote:

> 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.

I reported this error some months ago, and somebody said they fixed it. I 
have not been able to test it as there has been no new Hatari release 
since then. And I guess the same goes for XiA.

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Anders Eriksson
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