Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Sound capability?

[Per Mathisen <permath@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

W Stockwell wrote:
> >   I, for one, would love to see sound support added to freeciv.  We could
> > steal the sounds from civ II(I think it uses wav files) and setup some way
> > to interface a command line player or possibly build the capability right
> > into the game itself.

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Paul "Froggy" Schneider wrote:
> It's illegal and I would strongly suggest against it.  However, I would,
> too, be very interested with adding a little sound to freeciv. 
> Shouldn't be too hard to either get some clips that are in PD or make up
> some.

Adding the sound code should be rather easy. I've looked at esound, and
using it seems rather straight-forward. It has the advantage of being
blessed by the holy gnomes (www.gnome.org/applist/view.phtml?name=esound), 
and it mixes sound streams and shares /dev/dsp between esound-enabled
applications all by itself. 

The hard part is getting good and legal sounds to play. If you can
find/make any, go ahead.

Yours,
Per