Beat Witch - Interpreter MAC

Competitions IFComp
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Anybody know which interpreters (Mac) would support the music for Beat Witch? Lectrote isn’t playing it and the game’s telling me the interpreter doesn’t support volume control.

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The music seems to work fine in Gargoyle and Spatterlight.

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It works fine on my mac while playing in-browser, so that should be an option for anyone who has trouble.

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Yeah, just use one of these. Lectrote does not include sound support as it is based on Quixe, which has no sound support.

-Wade

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Thanks all!

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Hang on, an Inform game playing music in a browser, for real? (i.e. not using @mathbrush 's clever but cheaty workaround)? What tech is enabling this? Last time I looked, none of the interpreters would do this. Does one of them now do it?

-Wade

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It uses Vorple IIRC.

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Thanks all, for pitching in to answer @johnnywz00’s question!

You are all correct – sound for Beat Witch works in most offline interpreters (like Gargoyle) and sound in the browser will work if you play directly from the IFComp site.

I didn’t use the workaround @mathbrush was using. He was still in Quixe, the default online interpreter, as far as I know. I used Vorple with some hacks of my own. :slight_smile: After the comp, I plan on making my source code available for anyone who wants to see how I supported both online and offline play.

So it comes down to this: Beat Witch will play sound in the browser (edit: but not Lectrote), provided it’s the officially supported online version.

(If you’re playing in the browser and type VERSION in the game, and you see "Vorple version 3.2.8 " – or whatever version of Vorple happens to be used – on the line after the game’s release number, sound should be supported for you.)

I have also added an alternative online play link to Beat Witch’s IFDB entry, as the “Play On-line” button uses Quixe and won’t work with sound. I would love to have the actual button go to the correct version, but I don’t know if that’s possible on IFDB.

And as noted in the help menu and walkthrough, hearing the music is not essential to winning the game. If you’re having a lot of trouble getting the sound to work, please don’t stress out about it!

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Lectrote doesn’t support Vorple. There’s no way you’ll be getting sound out of Lectrote at present.

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Good to know. Thanks.