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On April 28, 2008, Milan Mimica wrote:
> Ryan Dickie wrote:
> > Yes, I rely on OpenAL for this. From what I can gather, ALSA,
> > pulseAudio, CoreAudio, DirectSound, and the Vista/Xbox api all handle
> > this as well.
>
> Hm. From this weak experience I've gathered with ALSA I've learn that it
> can't handle mixing. It just can't handle multiple voices playing at the
> same time unless hardware supports it, which in common cases it can't.
Raw alsa can not. But most/all distros setup DMIX by default. It should be
perfectly transparent to allegro that its even running through dmix, but that
wasn't the case when I wrote the alsa code.
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