Re: Question for Audio Animator owners...

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Drew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One thing i have noticed with my audio animator is that with certain
> games if you cancel the playing of music that it will just sit there
> and play the last tone until something else triggers music to be
> played. I have seen this mainly in Sierra games such as KQ2, SQ2 and
> Silpheed etc. I had just lived with it until i started to put my own
> sound card together and that doesn't exhibit the issue (though only
> tested it on a none accelerator GS).
>
> Has anyone else heard this? Could it suggest a faulty AA ? If so what
> component failure might exhibit this issue?

This is a software bug.

Apparently some programmers thought of the sound on/off control
as something that would be used before sound started.

Turning off sound generation by the DOC requires specific actions,
not just the cessation of sending new sound commands.

-michael

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