v3:

 nothing new. only a few minor changes & fixes.

 the sndserver from the latest linux[sx]doom release doesnt work with sndcvt,
 so i have included the (pre-patched) sndserver which came with the first
 release of linuxXdoom.
 there is also a hacked version of the latest sndserver, by Dave Madden
 (dhm@vheissu.net.dcl.co.jp) which works with sndcvt, it can be found
 on SunSite.



v2:

 - support for pc speaker driver
    (pcsndrv-0.7.tar.gz), not tested with earlier versions.
 - support for mono soundcards

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sndcvt

 this is a little program to convert the 16bit sound of DOOM to 8bit sound,
 for the poor guys who still own a SBpro or other 8 bit soundcard, like me..

 to use it you have to patch sndserver.
 replace all occurrences of "/dev/dsp" by "/tmp/dsp".
 this can be done with sed.

 $ sed s,/dev/dsp,/tmp/dsp,g < sndserver > sndserver.new
 (dont forget to replace the old server with the new one,
  and also make sure DOOM can find it (edit the pathname in .doomrc))

 after that make a named pipe in /tmp

 $ mknod /tmp/dsp p

 All done..  startup sndcvt, and fire up DOOM..


 happy dooming..

 Charles.. <int@link.xs4all.nl>



PS:
   if you're having trouble getting sndcvt to work, send me the output of:
   $ strace sndcvt -[smp] &> out