re stereo sound problem on mac games in apr gallant apple com steve bollinger buzz apple com writes use the sound manager and work fine on all machines the more of the story is to developers don t cheat really i am absolutely positively not allowed to do what i am about to do but i m going say it anyway stop cheating on sound really soon you will be sorry as even those without external speakers will be disappointed with your sound on future hardware the grace period is about to end the sound manager is understandable now and works pretty well and will work even better soon so use it don t be silly using the sound manager on a quadra is very well but using sm on any of the low end machines doesn t simply work for a decent action game since it just steals too much time from the cpu this is a fact by writing directly to the hardware on an se it is possible to have simultaneous channels of sampled sound khz for a cost of approx cycles exactly how would you do that using the sm pray tell the correct thing to do is to use the sm on the machines that can carry that extra load using the sm means and to write directly to the sound hardware on the machines that can t it s not the politically correct thing but from the developers point of view it is christer ericson internet christer cs umu se tel department of computer science university of umea s umea sweden
