[Openal] System requirements?

[Jason Daly]

Starglider 4 (Marco Knoester) wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm about to publish my shareware game.
> What i'd like to know, with regard to the system
> requirements on my site:
> Is openAL supported on every system?
> I personally believe it is.

No, it's not supported on _every_ system, but it's supported on a lot of 
them.  You didn't say what platforms your game supports.  For Windows, 
you can provide a link here:

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip

Recent versions of OSX and some Linux distributions include it.  For 
others, you can point them at OpenAL-Soft:

http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

> Or do i need to specify 'openAL support needed (on Sound card)'
> in the requirements?

I wouldn't put it that way, because OpenAL support is not necessarily 
needed on the sound card (most sound cards don't support it directly).  
The links above will provide a software implementation (which works 
fine), if a specific hardware implementation isn't available.

--"J"

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