[Gambas-user] Rpg Project

[Rob]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 05:13, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > - SDL_sound handles MIDI files:
> > Cf. <http://www.icculus.org/SDL_sound/>.
> But when you write a game, you need to play several sounds at
> the same time, and SDL_sound don't seem to do that.

Sure you can.  That SDL Gambas demo I did using perl-SDL as the 
back end could do it pretty easily (each button was assigned to 
a channel, and I declared 4 or 8 channels, and SDL software 
mixed them.)  Maybe whoever wrote the Gambas SDL component only 
declared 1 channel?

MIDI support under Linux sucks not because it's unsupported (you 
can upload samples to a lot of cards that support them, or you 
can use one of a half dozen different software synths with ALSA) 
but because no mainstream distro that I know of sets it up to 
work by default.  I think I'd just use timidity myself at this 
point in time.

Rob