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CDarrow / DXX-Retro

A source port of Descent 1 and 2, focused on quality competitive play. Uncompromising commitment to original gameplay (except where the original sucked). Based on the Rebirth project.
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Upgrade to SDL 2 #127

Open roncli opened 1 year ago

roncli commented 1 year ago

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/MigrationGuide

roncli commented 1 year ago

Motivation behind this is that there have been reports that SDL 1.2 is causing performance issues with modern computers. Most notably rethink has a major issue with it.

SiriusTR commented 1 year ago

It appears that SDL2 discontinues the CD Audio API, meaning Redbook will likely no longer work (unless that uses a different API). Notably, Rebirth would already be affected by this if that is the case. Is that a problem for anyone we know of? It isn't for me.

roncli commented 1 year ago

I would not feel right disabling Redbook audio. Let me ask 8bit how they fixed it.

roncli commented 1 year ago

Apparently "you can make a Redbook style soundtrack addon or use the Jukebox". So, added work would have to go in to keeping Redbook audio. That's a bit beyond what I know how to do, so I'll keep this open in case someone is able to SDL 2 working. My experiment with that went... well, it didn't go at all, actually. 🙃