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Playing music through the PC speaker
Is there anyway to play music through the pc speaker? You know the little
speaker that beeps out the post codes if anything is wrong. |
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Is there anyway to play music through the pc speaker? You know the little
speaker that beeps out the post codes if anything is wrong. Kinda depends on your os I think, I found a special driver for win9x and winMe on the microsoft site. http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1 I remember I used something like that on win 3.11 but the sound was horrible. |
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"Günther De Vogelaere" wrote in message ... Is there anyway to play music through the pc speaker? You know the little speaker that beeps out the post codes if anything is wrong. Kinda depends on your os I think, I found a special driver for win9x and winMe on the microsoft site. http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1 I remember I used something like that on win 3.11 but the sound was horrible. I guess XP is out of the question then. |
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Charlie the Choo-Choo wrote:
Is there anyway to play music through the pc speaker? You know the little speaker that beeps out the post codes if anything is wrong. I have a DOS program called "Circus". It plays caliope music through the PC speaker. Normally the PC speaker is controlled by the programmed timer on the MB. Other programs that reproduce music, normally have no access to it. There have been programs that let you use the keyboard to produce musical notes. I don't know of any that work with Windows, though it should be possible. Virg Wall -- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,........ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Microsoft programmer's manual.) |
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"V W Wall" wrote in message ... Charlie the Choo-Choo wrote: Is there anyway to play music through the pc speaker? You know the little speaker that beeps out the post codes if anything is wrong. I have a DOS program called "Circus". It plays caliope music through the PC speaker. Normally the PC speaker is controlled by the programmed timer on the MB. Other programs that reproduce music, normally have no access to it. There have been programs that let you use the keyboard to produce musical notes. I don't know of any that work with Windows, though it should be possible. A lot of the old DOS programs went the way of the Dodo bird about the time the 80486 was introduced (if my fuzzy mynd is recollecting correctly). They (Intel) started dropping legacy command support in favor of faster processing. That was about the only reason I abandoned my old WordStar and SideKick combination. I'd be surprised if any of the old legacy DOS stuff still works today. |
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MyndPhlyp wrote:
"V W Wall" wrote in message ... Charlie the Choo-Choo wrote: Is there anyway to play music through the pc speaker? You know the little speaker that beeps out the post codes if anything is wrong. I have a DOS program called "Circus". It plays caliope music through the PC speaker. Normally the PC speaker is controlled by the programmed timer on the MB. Other programs that reproduce music, normally have no access to it. There have been programs that let you use the keyboard to produce musical notes. I don't know of any that work with Windows, though it should be possible. A lot of the old DOS programs went the way of the Dodo bird about the time the 80486 was introduced (if my fuzzy mynd is recollecting correctly). They (Intel) started dropping legacy command support in favor of faster processing. That was about the only reason I abandoned my old WordStar and SideKick combination. I'd be surprised if any of the old legacy DOS stuff still works today. Intel has nothing to do with it. It's all in the BIOS, which has been much modified, but still retains the old functions. Strangely enough, the basic PC hasn't changed that much. A CMOS real time clock has been added, but the basic programed timer still exists. My "Circus" program still plays in a DOS window in Win98, although it sounds lousy since the case speaker has been replaced by a "transducer". I still use Super-Calc as my normal spread sheet, and the old WordStar still works just fine. I even added a mouse driver to it! You can use debug to exercise "legacy command support", if you don't remember how to write a DOS assembly program. Virg Wall -- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,........ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Microsoft programmer's manual.) |
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