Squeak... No Sound

Joe Novosel gt2497b at prism.gatech.edu
Wed Jan 21 02:50:30 UTC 1998


> 
> > I don't seem to be very lucky with Squeak 1.3, on both Windows 95 
> > (several ones) and Linux.
> 
> The Unix ports don't support sound at all.  There are so many different
> ways of doing it on Unix boxes that implementing it would be a nightmare.
> 
> I once tried to do it using NetAudio, but after failing to make the
> server run reliably on Linux (and seeing similar reports all over the
> relevant newgroups) I gave up.
> 
> If anyone wants to volunteer to implement _portable_ sound for Unix,
> please press the "reply" button now...  ;)
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
Look at: http://www.4front-tech.com/
They have a set of drivers that work with most unix implementations
(including Linux).  All drivers share a common API.  (RealAudio for Unix
uses the oss API.)
This might be the best bet for Squeak to have sound on unix systems.

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