There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
OpenAL is being(or was pushed)"pushed" into the ground by Microsoft when they killed hardware acceleration hooks by nuking DirectAudio and game devs that started to use standardized audio engines so its easier to port to consoles and increase development times as gamers began to care more and more about framerates and graphics effects versus the overall immersion factor of a game that combined realistic AUDIO with convincing and smooth graphics
We'd LOVE to see more people pushing the boundaries with OpenAL and audio design in general.
If there are no developers developing for OpenAL how are we responsible for that?
Sorry but your anger here is seriously misdirected (and quite honestly incredibly outdated).
Are you upset with Dolby as well? What about the other "non-open proprietary" standards? Are they suppressing competing standards?
Alas, a decision to release a license is a bit above my pay grade.
That being said, I get your frustration and appreciate the obvious passion for audio you have.
Also this certainly wasn't directed to you personally, although your follow up indicates the confusion about this created at creative is real and I hope they will in the future support it further as its still the main way to implement 3d audio for headphones via HRTF. I'd recommend anyone wanting to modernize their openal implementation to download the dll of "soft AL" until something from this decade shows up at the "official" open al as the "soft AL" implementation can be considered the real standard at this point.
common misconception pushed by creative: You can still run openal through software as designed, what microsoft did here only cut out the ability of a hardware sound card to process the 3d audio instead of your processor as it should be, and this is only why creative is burying a 3d audio api, they cant use it as a marketing bonus directly, so instead they make money by selling licenses to those that do want to develop this further, making these offerings far too expensive for general use. So its kinda funny they keep using lines like this that only explain Creative's problems with OpenAL, not a problem for the the users that actually want to listen with it although they are forced to use SoftAL which 1 person is still keeping around and developed so people can do this in software properly still WITHOUT creative's help, or any issues from microsoft lol
Since my first builds and my own budget spend for my computers, sound was my priority. Sound Blaster AWE 64 rocked my world, then Audigy and then X-Fi , might missed someone between, but thats it, downhill from that moment on. If you pay attention to today's series, they are most of them just rebranded Audigy , same tools, same software, same effects and tons of marketing.
Driver support is a joke, why do i have to spend 100$ every 5 years because my awesome product stopped working , though shitty onboard sound cards still have driver support after 12 years :P
Sound standards do not change every 3 years like monitor / graphics , hdd etc.
Anyway the death of sound came by microsoft like stated above.
Cheers and wish these ***tards get c****er