[hatari-devel] Issues with DMA sound

[npomarede at corp.free.fr]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Per Almered wrote:

> That's great! I'll get back to you once I've tested the new engine
> too. BTW, is there a reliable way to detect Hatari, so I can serve
> different versions of the music depending on the emulator?
>

Hello,

no there's no such things, as hatari is supposed to be "undetectable" from 
the running program, to ensure maximum compatibility and the closest 
emulation possible of a real Atari. This should "force" us to correct bug 
:)

And serving different version of the music would not be a good idea, 
because if you music is "tuned" for Hatari because of a sound difference, 
then the day we'll fix Hatari then your music will sound bad again.

So, better warn the user that problems are known with 
Steem/Saint/Hatari/... or any emulator in general (or that it requires at 
least v1.3 of Hatari in the case the volume problem is gone is gone with 
this new release).

By the way, do you use the LMC chip to change DMA sample 
volumes/filter/..., or do you play sample with the default hardware 
settings ? Because LMC is clearly not fully implemented for now.


Nicolas