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I am developing a game in GW-Basic.i want to add music to it but the problem is that i am unable to play in the background but when i add sound then first the sound is played then after that game execution is started and vICE vERSA .while i want that both things play at the same time..so any idea how to do it??

Naushaad Abbas
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  • You should look into SoundBlaster programming. IIRC, you could set it up to generate interrupts where you'd fill up a buffer with PCM data, which then is DMA:d to the audio DACs. But I'd really recommend you to _not_ use GW-BASIC. Using something like SDL would be much, much easier (and more portable). – Michael Oct 31 '13 at 14:11
  • Maybe you can emulate concurrency :D . Make a fake executor queue. Put each note just after small packets of work. But That would make it very difficult to create a known soundtrack. – huseyin tugrul buyukisik Mar 05 '14 at 21:27

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This is actually possible. Use the PLAY "MB" statement to enable "music background" mode. In this mode all PLAY notes and SOUNDs are queued and executed in the background while your program is running. You can queue up to 32 notes. Look up PLAY in this manual.

pdw
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