DracoNihil wrote on 2021-03-10, 14:44:
MikMod doesn't do any kind of interpolation if you're on Soundblaster rather than GUS, and MikMod handles all sound (and music) on the GUS through hardware mixing, but be prepared to obviously run into issues with the 1024KB only memory limit.
There's one thing that I was wondering about. From my recent tests, I noticed that there are games where changing to GUS is an improvement in sound and music from good to better, sometimes not even very noticeable (the sound gets "deeper" but otherwise SB is already okay). Yet there are others where music sounds really not good with SB, with very audible rustling kind of noise in the music, which goes away if GUS is used. Such games include Axia and Kingdom at War. Do you know if this is because of the lack of interpolation you mentioned, or for other reasons?
DracoNihil wrote on 2021-03-10, 19:02:Three games I have off hand currently that use MikMod:
CRASH by Digital Nightmares
Ravage by Alpha Helix Productions
ACID Tetris […]
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Three games I have off hand currently that use MikMod:
CRASH by Digital Nightmares
Ravage by Alpha Helix Productions
ACID Tetris by Dungeon Dweller Design
I wanted to mention Ravage too, I like the intro/menu music.
BTW, as I recently discovered and mentioned elsewhere, Bref displays some kind of graphical glitches with mouse cursor if SB is used, which is fixed by using GUS. I suspect that this might be related to the sound effect which is played if you click the mouse anywhere except menu items, but not sure.
Pierre32 wrote on 2021-03-11, 08:27:
It's interesting because when the GUS topic comes up, there are usually a small handful of games that get mentioned as good showcases, such as Jazz Jackrabbit, Epic Pinball (etc), and Star Control 2. Evidently there are numerous gems out there that don't generally come up in the conversation.
So far I'm getting the impression that shareware/freeware games produced by demo groups tend to have GUS support, or even were written predominantly with GUS in mind. Many of these originate in Europe (France, Germany, UK, Spain, Finland) but I cannot yet say with certainty that such games are more common/numerous compared to the Americas.