Reading the HyperNext manual #1

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu May 20 07:36:47 EDT 2010


  On 20/05/2010 07:31, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
> HyperNext is hardly "developed by 1 person." It is based on REALbasic,
> using RB's scripting language as its programming language. So the fact
> that it can play multiple sounds, run on multiple platforms, etc.,
> comes courtesy of the hard work of the team at REAL Software.
>
> It would be about the same as giving Ken Ray credit for the amazing
> graphics capabilities of stackrunner (no offense, Ken).
>
> gc
>

Fair point!

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Richmond Mathewson
> <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   http://www.tigabyte.com/docs/LanguageReference.pdf
>>
>> "There are five dedicated sound channels and any sound
>> or music file must be allocated to a channel."
>>
>> The idea of having sound channels so that 2 or more sounds can
>> be played simultaneously comes up here from time to time; but
>> never seems to get anywhere.
>>
>> Now how is it that a RAD developed by 1 person can manage
>> sound channels while . . . .  ?

What I do not understand (and I have asked this before) is why, if
so many languages/IDEs/RADs have sound channels (my BBC has
sound channels in its hardwired BBC BASIC), it seems to be such a
sticking point every time I mention it the possibility re RunRev.

Plying 2 sounds simultaneously in RunRev is a no-no; and the
addition of sound channels would be a significanr addition.



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