Making Descent support CD audio?

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Mikael
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Making Descent support CD audio?

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I just thought of a great addition to Descent 1: CD audio! Then we could just put the D1 PSX tracks on a CD and have them play in-game. What do you think? Would this be hard to accomplish? Since D2 supports CD audio, wouldn't it be possible to reuse some/all of that code?

I'm not good enough at programming to pull this off, but I'm sure we have someone here that could do it!
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Post by Floyd »

put ANY audio cd into a free drive which is connected to the sound card and hit the "play" button on the drive. problem solved.
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Yeah, yeah, I know. I just wanted the game to change tracks when you got to new levels, went to the menu, and what not. Like D2 does. It feels less ghetto... :P
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Post by Sirius »

If I'm not mistaken, D2 doesn't really do that (except for the main menu I think)... I recall it cycling through the tracks.
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Both... each level starts with a certain track, and then they cycle sequentially.
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Post by MD-2389 »

Sorry, someone beat you to it. Nab the 1.42 OpenGL build of D1x off of Planet Descent under the D1 files section. Be sure and run the file with the -help command line option to see the commands available to you to stick into your d1x.ini.
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Post by Kyouryuu »

Descent 2 basically had a series of level CD tracks. It would start on Track 3, for example. When Track 3 ended, it would automatically advance to Track 4 and so on. When you started the next level, it incremented the starting track to the next one, in this case Track 4, and the process repeats.
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Post by Riot »

Simple solution.

Descent 2 MP3 player. Like UT2004.
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