I hate to report intermittent problems that aren't likely to be easy to duplicate, but this one is really wacky. I was adding the ability to push Command-Q to quit in my SDL 1.3 program when I ran across this one.

What happens is this: the *first* time you push Command-W (or any command-key combination) on MacOS X 10.6.4, after having just started an SDL 1.3 app, you sometimes hear a super-loud buzz sound -- the type of sound that might occur if the app were somehow writing into random memory where the sound output is. Then, every time you push it after that, it gives the (normal volume) "System beep" when you push that key combo again. You must restart the app to get it to misbehave once again.

I DID manage to get this same identical behavior by running a stock build of spritetest2. No modifications. BUT -- it was a lot harder to duplicate. I had to try it around 10 times, starting and quitting the app, before it did the behavior just once.

I then went into System Preferences and changed my Alert sound effect, to see if the bizarre sound might be a result of the "System beep" sound being played perhaps 100x (and mixed together to form a super-loud result), and yet, after changing the setting, I could not reproduce the behavior. It may just be a strange random fluke, I'm not sure.

-Vern