http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/finance/Arcade_Sound_Sampler.wmv 1:24s at 536,398 kbps. Peak Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is 770kbps (I think). Is the OPL command set capable of panning? Arcade_Sampler { ; This works nicely under DOSbox. reset=2003 type=mandelcloud passes=1 center-mag=-0.5/0/0.6666667 params=-37 float=y maxiter=100 inside=0 periodicity=3 hertz=360 sound=x/pc/fm attack=1 decay=0 sustain=15 srelease=0 showorbit=yes orbitdelay=1 debug=4020 debug=70 } That's the version I wrote for a Pentium II, back in 2005. My video haz x on the left channel, and y on the right channel. Just about any mandelcloud with connected orbits will work to make fast, oscillating glides, although I think the sweet parts are on the right end. One thing I don't like about DOSbox: It does not seem to know how to automatically saturate one processor of a dual core: Saturating both cores without a programmer's intent should not even be attempted, because you will end up spending a lot of time saving state information. I suspect that DOSbox is running in debug mode, because when I manually adjust it towards saturating my processor: "cycles: 30000", it is still a lot slower than cmd.exe. It is great for capturing stuff, though. DOSbox is something Micro$oft should've written ten years ago. It emulates a soundblaster/OPL card, which is not my hardware. It emulates VESA BIOS, so that FRACTINT works above 360by480. It can capture audio and video, including a simulation of that old PC speaker. It supports a graphics window, so it does not need to switch into full screen mode to operate FRACTINT. It is configured by default with 16MB of EMS and XMS that fractint can use for either enabling users to shell out or for performance with that 2048 pixel square disk video mode, uh, whenever authors figure out how to efficiently spend more time slices. I can run CWSDPMI under DOSbox for the space that simplgif uses in its potential to make gigapixel imajez. It is under two megabytes, so it is not hours of downloading over dial-up. It has some keys for slowing itself down, in case a big batch job is consuming too much power. It comes off the net in one-click form; no wizards, no warnings, except when I installed the AVI codec. Overall, it is a wonderful environment, except when it comes to completely disabling code for downspeeding, so for now, I will run batch files with good old cmd.exe, and when I want to let my friends watch a tesseral rendering over a wmv, then I hav no other way than DOSbox. _______ http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/ Organized Babble