FMOD replacement.

[Syfo-Dyas]

I am not a coder, so pardon me if I sound ignorant, but I have heard that ZDOOM is not portable to next gen Amiga OS's because it depends upon Fmod for it's audio.

So I'm wandering if there is an open source alternative that could be used instead?

[edward850]

Replace FMOD with what, exactly? Keep in mind you asking for support for an Operating System no-one uses.

[Syfo-Dyas]

I understand, we're a small crowd. I'm just asking, is there a feasible alternative that Amiga coders might be able to take advantage of?

[wildweasel]

As far as I can recall, the best chances you'll have of getting an FMOD replacement are if you (or another Amiga user) decide to code the support yourself. The main issue, to the best of my knowledge, is that FMOD's DLL handles a lot of things by itself (i.e. reverb, surround sound support, environmental effects, supported audio types) that would need to be effectively coded from scratch on any other sound system.

[InsanityBringer]

Someone was working on a OpenAL alternative to the sound engine but I haven't hear anything about that lately. I have no idea if OpenAL has libraries for AmigaOS anyways, though.

[Syfo-Dyas]

We do have OpenAL!

[Graf Zahl]

OpenAL is the only alternative. Unfortunately, the only person ever working on that never managed to get the code working outside of Linux. On Windows it's totally broken and/or mostly non-functional due to dependencies that are non-practical on Windows systems.

So, unless somebody comes forward and makes this code work on other platforms (and judging from what happened in the last few years), this is not going to happen.