Jupp, esd and artsd are sound daemons, meaning programs can connect to them to output sound instead of directly connecting to the hardware via ALSA or OSS. They provide software mixing (alsa also provides support for effect plugins), but can result in lagging sound. Simply killing alsad and esd may ...

Just a note: I have played with seqplayer.coo, and changing WaitTicks so it only passes a fifth of the tick value to the engine makes the intro and other scripted sequences run much more like the original (on my machine).

I played kyrandia to the caves yesterday evening and was impressed - great work, in a couple of months from 'plays intro without glitches' to 'fully playable'. The only issues I encountered so far: -some minor graphic glitches -the intro is much slower than in the original (I checked with dosbox) -i...