[REL] sh4speech - voice command for SH4

[billko]

Originally Posted by minsc_tdp

Careful with that, if it missed a tube switch, say you start at 1 and say "tube 3" and it misses it, then you say "next tube" twice to reach tube three, it will actually think you're on tube 5. Then if you say "open tube 1" it will think it has to go 2 more to go 6,1 and it will actually end up opening tube five (cuz you're on 3 and it goes 3+2). So it's best we fix this. If you find yourself all mixed up of course just say "reset tubes" and click tube 1, and it should be fine from there.

I figured that, so I don't rely on it. If the torpedo room didn't "hear" me, I hit the "w" to make sure the command goes through. From the documentation you provided, I figured it was absoultely essential to do this or everything would get out of sync. And, of course, the few times I forgot, I went to "manual override" until I was out of the firefight, then "reset tubes" - after manually setting the tube to tube one, of course.

I hope that the delay thing will fix it. My theory is that when it starts to lag, the program starts loading the keyboard buffer more quickly than SH4 can read it; therefore, some of the "keystrokes" are overlooked. The other theory is that SH4 clears the keyboard buffer right before it reads it, instead of right after it reads it. While that seems to be just semantics, it comes into play when the game slows down significantly because the window of opportunity where the player can input a keyboard stroke and have it be cleared "accidentally on purpose" gets pretty big. A variant of that theory is that the computer slows down so much that the keyboard interrupt isn't serviced until it's too late and the SH4 dumps the keyboard input for the reason above. I dunno, timing gets hairy when the computer is under duress like that. The last theory would explain why, when deep in time compression, the mouse and keyboard become fairly unresponsive, and may be the reason why keyboard strokes are lost to me when the graphices slow the game down.

I hope this has given you some insight on how you might make this super mod accomodate slow rigs like mine. I say it's optional because there's nothing wrong with the mod; it's something wrong (read: slow) about some of the computers it's being run on.

Bill