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Magic Oddball [soylentnews.org] writes:

Jason Scott, who has been working on the Internet Archive's Console Living Room [archive.org], recently posted what he calls a "desperate" plea for help [textfiles.com] fixing serious sound problems with JSMESS [archiveteam.org] and Web Audio API [w3.org]. He asks that people share the request 'far and wide' in hope that someone capable of fixing the problem sees it.

The situation: Internet Explorer gets no audio, Safari is unpredictable, and for Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Chrome the audio ranges from "very nice" to "horrible, grating." (For comparison, see the Web Audio API compatibility chart [caniuse.com] he linked to.) The Archive has two test cases people can try (click on "toggle MESS performance indicator" to see how your system fares):

Here is the Wizard Test [textfiles.com]. It's an emulator playing the Psygnosis game "Wiz n' Liz" on an emulated Sega Genesis. This is extremely tough on the browser — almost nothing can play it at 100% speed.

Here is the Criminal Test [textfiles.com]. It is an emulator playing Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal as rendered on a Colecovision. It is not tough on the browser at all. Almost everything should be able to do it at 100% or basically 100%.

He says that he's "happy to entertain all ideas, discuss all possibilities" and will "spend all the time you need to ramp up, or try any suggestion." If anyone might be able to help, he says to go to #jsmess on EFNet if you use IRC, or email him at audio@textfiles.com.

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