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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:27:39 +0800
From:      "Daniel Kirkwood" <dmk@worfie.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <summer@os2.ami.com.au>, <igor_pokrovsky@mail.ru>
Subject:   Re: Doom & Heretic ports 
Message-ID:  <010e01c10391$a57f2900$190c0b0a@cairo.iteru.net>
References:  <200107030437.f634bP004382@possum.os2.ami.com.au>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Summerfield" <summer@os2.ami.com.au>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Doom & Heretic ports


> > Hello.
> >
> > I have ported Doom and Heretic to FreeBSD + SVGA library. They are
> > looks as nice as in DOS, but runs faster and have 16bit sound support.
> > Please, tell me how my port could be taken to ports tree.
> >
>
> The pedant steps in. I think that, if you check the manufacturer of
> your sound card, you will find it's '16 voices,' not '16 bits.'

The pedant's pedant steps in -

16 bit sound refers to waveform sampling... IE, the soundcard (and in this
case, Mr Pokrovsky's software) supports 16 bit waveforms, as opposed to 8
bit waveforms as used by older sound hardware.

"16 voice" or "128 voice", as the case may be, refers to the music
synthesizer on your soundcard - which means it can produce sounds from 128
different sythesized or sampled instruments simultaneously.

Igor, I haven't had much involvement with the ports collection, however you
could check the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook at the address below, if you
haven't done so already.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html



Regards,

Daniel.


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