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Advanced surround sound with realtime doppler shift.
in space? wow! i’d really like to hear that! i’d really like to hear anything!
:slight_smile:

Actually, it sounds very similar to "The Jupiter Project"
that Nathan, Paul and I did for a comp. sci. project …
We got the 3d doppler shifted sound, newtonian physics, etc… We decided to
place it in the cloudy atmosphere of Jupiter (though still waitless, due
to a special mechanism whereby gravity is warped around the craft or somesuch)

We got reasonably far, considering… :slight_smile: (ie. we did NOT polish it off at all,
and it was quite slow - mainly due to the 10000 clouds that it was rendering
every frame :slight_smile:
(There are MANY things that I would do differently if I were to restart the
project - like to do a proper design first :slight_smile:

Infact, we got it to a playable state, then went on to other things :slight_smile:

(We were developing jointly for Mac and Linux)

I think its still available on an FTP site someone (njh? do you still have it?)
if anyone is curious … (or feels like porting it to SDL - I started doing a
win32 port last summer, but never finished it)

cya
Josh----
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place it in the cloudy atmosphere of Jupiter (though still waitless, due
to a special mechanism whereby gravity is warped around the craft or somesuch)

Yes, to make it waitless a non-einsteinian quantum field is generated
followed by schrodinger’s cat running through a buttercup meadow… :slight_smile:
(Oh yes, and specially trained staff… )

I think its still available on an FTP site someone (njh? do you still
have it?) if anyone is curious … (or feels like porting it to SDL -
I started doing a win32 port last summer, but never finished it)

ftp://ftp.cs.monash.edu.au/users/njh/JupiterSource/something
hmmm
and I seem to have a Linux build sitting on my ftp site… I’m not sure at
what stage that build is from though… (I might clean it up, and see if I can
compile it under my current Linux system and put up a package)

for those interested in the precompiled version for linux:
ftp://hal.nb.surfnetcity.com.au/pub/misc/JupiterProjectDemo-i586-linux-elf-static.tgz

(This was compiled w/ Glibc (early beta’s - ie. Feb 1997) - as the threading
for the sound was unreliable under libc5, and didn’t work with X)

and I’ve found my latest source aswell… (it may be in a varied state of
conciousness… I can’t remember)

same directory as above, filename:
coal980329.tgz
(and there are a few others with the same nameing convention from different times)

can’t remember exact URL, but the whole thing is basically public
domain/gpl (email me if you want to know exact details…:slight_smile: - do what you
like, but any improvements must be mailed to me so I can go COOL! :slight_smile:
And me :slight_smile:

btw. Check out misc/target.h and the Makefile in the toplevel directory
before compiling.

If you want to know how to USE the game, look at the source, or e-mail me :slight_smile:

Under Linux, we were originally using GCC 2.7.2.2, Glibc 2, libpthreads.
I’m now using EGCS, and it still seems to work, though one of the linux ports
is slightly broken (I can’t remember if it was X or SVGA), if you can find
the bug, tell me! :slight_smile: (It’s a texture map bug, and is quite obvious)

cya
Josh-----
wild horses could not keep me away… well, actually they probably
could. i’m kinda wimpy and wild horses can look pretty mean. but it’s
not the wild ones you have to worry about. it’s the smart ones like Mr.
Ed who’ve infiltrated our society and secretly plot our downfall.

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place it in the cloudy atmosphere of Jupiter (though still waitless, due
to a special mechanism whereby gravity is warped around the craft or somesuch)

Yes, to make it waitless a non-einsteinian quantum field is generated
followed by schrodinger’s cat running through a buttercup meadow… :slight_smile:
(Oh yes, and specially trained staff… )

I think its still available on an FTP site someone (njh? do you still
have it?) if anyone is curious … (or feels like porting it to SDL -
I started doing a win32 port last summer, but never finished it)

ftp://ftp.cs.monash.edu.au/users/njh/JupiterSource/something

can’t remember exact URL, but the whole thing is basically public
domain/gpl (email me if you want to know exact details…:slight_smile: - do what you
like, but any improvements must be mailed to me so I can go COOL! :slight_smile:

njh