Foone🏳️⚧️
I need to look into the game Cannon Fodder.
There was a thing with my copy, possibly because it was pirated, where the gun noise was just a short clip of static.
But it would changed and be different noises sometimes, based on other games you'd played
Foone🏳️⚧️
And I think what happened is that they weren't properly initializing some sound card buffer, so if a game had been played before, that game's sounds would be stuck in the card's buffer
vxo
@foone oh in the "I'm reading uninitialized memory" sense?
Foone🏳️⚧️
I remember this from when I played as a kid, and I'd like to see if that happens in all copies or mine was fucked, and figure out how it works
Foone🏳️⚧️
@vxo yeah
Foone🏳️⚧️
@kawa I figured the buffer would remain when you quit the game, because why would it get cleared?
And if the next game never clears it, it'd still be there to play
Kawaoneechan
@foone DOS-era sound cards? Sound Blaster and compatible?
I don't think digital audio worked like that back then. You had to soft-mix everything into one buffer, if I remember correctly. So the previous game's sounds wouldn't be there anymore.
Is also why when things crashed it'd repeat the last peat the last peat the last peat the last peat the last peat the last peat the last peat the last----
Kawaoneechan
@foone Yes, but that buffer contains the last second or so (depending on rate) of already-mixed output. The individual sound effects wouldn't be a part of that.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@kawa that's what it sounded like: like a clip of mixed audio.
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