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Presence of OpenAL can easily be noticed (in Windows) if the game directories contain any of the following files: OpenAL32.dll, wrap_oal.dll and alut.dll

Sanguine 2007-11-06 11:09:37

Supported platforms:
* Mac OS 8/9
* Mac OS X
* Linux
* BSD
* Solaris
* IRIX
* Windows
* Xbox
* X360

Currently supports stereo and 4 channel surround sound. Apparently surround sound breaks (falls back to stereo) with setups that have more than 4 channels/speakers (at least on Linux).

Sanguine 2007-10-29 12:14:43 - source

OAL runs in separate thread automatically (I have no idea how to disable this, nor why would I want to do that). The API is extremely simple to use because of this.

Speaking from personal experience, it took me less than a day to write a crude Ogg audio player with OAL. And most of the time went into understanding Vorbis library (for reading and decoding the audio file) than into learning OAL (both of which I had never before used - nor was I familiar with OGL, which supposedly shares a similar API). OAL also handles sound position and movement in 3D in quite simple manner, so there's even less for the programmer to do.

Sanguine 2007-10-20 01:19:36

 BioShock win

 Doom 3 win

 BioShock x360

 Trigger unix

 Unreal II: The Awakening win

 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars win