Re: Multimedia in DrScheme

[Mark Guzdial <guzdial@cc.gatech.edu>]

John wrote me privately about his SDL work. It's really neat, but for 
what I'm trying to to, it's more than I need and not cross-platform 
enough.  Both the faculty member running our Scheme course and I are 
Mac users, so a non-Mac solution won't work well here.

And I really don't need a large multimedia toolkit to do the things I 
described.  Just direct access to the PixMap (Thanks, Paul!) and to a 
SoundBuffer (an array of integers is JUST FINE) is all that's needed 
to really get some interesting multimedia projects going.  Moore's 
Law really makes even low-level machines capable of doing some 
amazing audio and graphical/animated effects, even at the higher 
level of Scheme (or Squeak).  (For example, we can do multi-voice 
sound synthesis in Squeak on my old 68040!)  We really don't need 
much at the native code level to be able to do interesting multimedia 
in DrScheme.

Mark

At 11:44 PM -0400 8/31/00, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>SDL looks pretty neat, and it (at least as importantly) seems to have
>some user/developer momentum.  Keep us posted on your progress with
>the bindings.  Perhaps if you have something working partially, others
>on this list would be interested in lending you a hand ...
>
>Shriram

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