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Setting the number of maximum simultaneous samples outside of DOS worlds would be useful for developing games that play a lot of sound effects or to limit the simultaneous sound effects in port games that use many of them (i.e. Thanatos Insignia). This would introduce one or more options for configuring the maximum allowed simultaneous samples:

• An option in the F2 menu to manually configure this (defaulting to -1 for no limit)
  
• A new counter for developers that allows a game to set its maximum simultaneous samples to some number. This would behave something like MZX_SPEED; setting this would lock the setting for the world from the UI.
  
• Alternatively, a config file option is possible.

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Updating status to: Implemented
Issue fixed in: 2.91

Implemented in GIT 4df7d33. Some notes:

• The F2 menu option does not exist yet, and has been deferred to a general F2/configure overhaul in 2.92.
  
• The config file option ("max_simultaneous_samples") and the counter ("MAX_SAMPLES") exist simultaneously instead of the latter locking the former.
  
• The effective maximum number of samples to be played will be the smaller value between the setting and the counter.

Moving to: Archived Requests