[z-machine] [Spec 1.1] Sound

[Jason Penney]

Hi all,

I'm realize I'm comming back to this rather late, but I was unable to giv=
e this
much thought back in August when David and David where talking about it.

That being said, I do think that David Kinder said everything I wanted to=
 say.
The original proposal seems more flexible to me in every way except one (=
how
can I stop just one instance sound X if more than one instance of X is
currently playing).  This could be worked around by storing a sound you p=
lanned
to use in this manor multiple times in the resource file (i.e. sounds 4-1=
2 are
all the same sound, but now you can stop just one of them).  Wasteful, bu=
t it
would work.

The original proposal also had a nice priority system for channel exhaust=
ion
that isn't present in David Fillmore's proposal (becaues you only have X
channels no matter what is playing) which I feel makes it less flexible.

1.1 was first proposed in December 2001, and it seems that sound is the o=
nly
remaining sticking point.

Jay


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