Hmm. Your friend is a Saul Williams fan apparently.
What is bex86?
And I look forward to your work! And I'm glad to see you working on something outside of AROS too. Not that AROS is bad. It's just that I like to see all the Amiga alternatives supported. Now I wonder when P.OS (or what ever that alternate OS was called) is going to get revived?
I've been working on my Star Wars project for PrBOOM-Plus as of late, and have found a new trick with the MP3 support that will allow me to better tell the story. Well it's an idea I've had kicking around that I finally put to the test.
I've got an interesting level created which takes place inside a pyramid. The central part of the pyramid is open and casts down light upon a tomb in the center of the room. When you enter in, a translucent image of a Spirit manifests above the tomb, and in the background I have an MP3 playing which consists of some ambient effects along with the dialog for the the floating image of the ancient spirit.
Hidden underneath the tomb is a LONG shaft which contains an elevator which is slowly and silently carrying a Talisman up towards the top of the tomb.
The elevator will reach the top at the exact time the Mp3 reaches the point where the dialog finishes, and the spirit tells you to take the talisman for protection. This Talisman will also allow the character to cross the room and exit through a door that could not be opened before you grab the talisman.
I need to add at least 2 or 3 minutes of additional Ambiance to the end of the MP3 though. In this way, unless the player leaves the game running to make a cup of coffee or what ever, they will have exited the door by the time the MP3 loops and the dialog repeats.
I have recently wrote the author of PrBOOM-Plus and asked if he might be able to add in game support to Start, Stop, and Pause MP3's within game. Not something my project depends upon, but surely something that would come in very handy for story telling!!!
While I was at it, I requested Jump support since we now have freelook in Gl mode.
Anyhow it would be great to be able to run my project underneath Amithlon some day too! As a matter of fact I set up my system to allow me to boot into Amithlon, or to boot into MicroXP which I have dedicated to working on my Star Wars project which I keep on an 8Gb USB stick so I can also work on the run.