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Title: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: jg18 on August 12, 2013, 02:45:14 pm: It looks like the Creative OpenAL download site is down, possibly permanently, since it doesn't even come up in a Google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=openal+creative+download). I can't look into this more at the moment, so what other options exist?

Thanks.
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: headdie on August 12, 2013, 05:13:47 pm: if anyone has a copy of the download it could always be hosted on FSmods at least for now
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: coffeesoft on August 14, 2013, 01:16:09 am: Here you can download, the OpeanAL installer 32-64 Bits and the " openal-soft-1.15.1-bin" as well.

Link

http://www.mediafire.com/?o62dmdbabg8wl8o (http://www.mediafire.com/?o62dmdbabg8wl8o)

Mirror

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksw1p3prblp8b8/OpenAL.rar (https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksw1p3prblp8b8/OpenAL.rar)
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: Fury on August 17, 2013, 01:18:51 pm: Interesting. Well, one more reason to support OpenAL Soft instead.
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

It's better than Creative's outdated POS too.
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: jr2 on August 22, 2013, 12:57:55 am: OpenAL Soft is a drop-in replacement for Creative OAL, or does FSO need to be made compatible with it?
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: niffiwan on August 22, 2013, 01:05:09 am: Drop in replacement, FSO on Linux & OSX already use it exclusively :)

Now, if we can only manage to statically link in OpenAL on Windows as well..... :D
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: jg18 on August 22, 2013, 01:10:25 am: Actually, OS X uses Apple's OpenAL library, which ships with OS X. Dunno if it's completely theirs or based on OpenAL Soft or something else, though.
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: niffiwan on August 22, 2013, 01:13:35 am: :blah: sorry about the misinformation :( (I *am* sure about Linux though, it's OpenAL Soft on every distro I've looked at)
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: Kopachris on August 22, 2013, 03:27:19 am: Quote from: coffeesoft on August 14, 2013, 01:16:09 am
Here you can download, the OpeanAL installer 32-64 Bits and the " openal-soft-1.15.1-bin" as well.

Link

http://www.mediafire.com/?o62dmdbabg8wl8o (http://www.mediafire.com/?o62dmdbabg8wl8o)

Mirror

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksw1p3prblp8b8/OpenAL.rar (https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksw1p3prblp8b8/OpenAL.rar)

Additional mirror
ftp://kopachr.is/OpenAL
(Folder contains a .zip for the regular installer and a .zip for openal-soft)
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: Fury on August 22, 2013, 03:34:19 am: Quote from: jr2 on August 22, 2013, 12:57:55 am
OpenAL Soft is a drop-in replacement for Creative OAL, or does FSO need to be made compatible with it?
Drop-in replacement.

http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
--> openal-soft-1.15.1-bin.zip
From the zip, extract Win32\soft_oal.dll to your FS2 directory and rename it to OpenAL32.dll.

To my surprise it even fixed blue-screening problem on one guy's X-Fi card.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=84849.0

Seriously, I don't know why SCP still insists on recommending Creative's OpenAL when OpenAL Soft could even be statically linked to the FSO executables. And if there is really need to, add a flag to disable the built-in OpenAL Soft to use external dll from Creative's or whatever.
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: wolfen on April 09, 2014, 02:11:44 pm: Thank you for linking to Open Al I lost everything when I reloaded my computer and now I have it back
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: Kopachris on April 09, 2014, 02:45:56 pm: Quote from: Kopachris on August 22, 2013, 03:27:19 am
Additional mirror
ftp://kopachr.is/OpenAL
(Folder contains a .zip for the regular installer and a .zip for openal-soft)

My mirror has been down for a while since I never bothered to reconfigure FTP after moving to a new server... Is fixed now.
Title: Re: OpenAL download site down (permanently?)
Post by: est1895 on April 09, 2014, 09:03:18 pm: I have a question.

My brother's OpenAL dates back to 2008. He now has a Win 7 64bit system as well. Should he download a newer version? Also, which file do I download from Kopaschris's mirror?