I am not Marathon Man!

[elfs]

Grr. It's 1:30 in the morning and I'm still up. I've just spent the last hour trying to figure out where in its wack-ass mind the old Apple program Marathon is clearing its sound manager values before it enters the music initialization loop. I'm getting pretty good at this GDB stuff; never had much need for it when I was just a Perl geek.

Having the source code to Marathon is kinda nice. Having it actually f#@!%ing work would be much nicer!

And I really have to say, GDB 6.0 is so much more amazingly better than GDB 5.0. Line completion, variable suggestion, thread functionality. Totally rocks.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

I has been ported to Linux. People claim it works. The problem is that when I try to run it throws an exception, and when I go to look why in the debugger I see that the sound manager object has been initialized, but all of its values have been set to zero. If i follow the defaulting code, the initializer seems to be working fine. I need to figure out where the code is "getting lost".

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

So I noticed when I set out to seriously look for it. It runs here, but very slowly with either the software or OpenGL renderers. I think my OpenGL setup must be not quite right.

The audio, however, works just fine.