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Re: sound card emulate "built-in" speaker?

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Aug 14, 2003
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Brian,

It's ok, I was wrong, the PC speaker *is* there, & *does*  work; it was just
turned off, and the mixer icon somehow got removed from the systray, so I
didn't notice the PC speaker was just turned off  :(

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Broker" <bkb at cnw.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: sound card emulate "built-in" speaker?


>
>
> True, but doesn't that just use the PC speaker that he says is missing?
>
> Guillermo Bonvehi wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you're using a NT based system you can use the beep function that's
> > in the API.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Guillermo Bonvehi
> >
> > Dan Moyer wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I recently got a cheap surplus laptop, & discovered that sound()
doesn't
> > > work on it.  It occurred to me that I may have heard once that laptops
> > > don't
> > > *have* the cheap "built-in" speaker that desktops do, which sound()
> > > would be
> > > using, and has instead speaker(s) attached to a sound card.  If that's
> > > true,
> > > is there some way to "emulate" the sound() routine to work on the
sound
> > > card
> > > speakers?  I need to *not* use .wav files, because the effect I want
to
> > > produce is a tone which varies continuously in frequency depending on
a
> > > variable input.  (I might use .wav files in addition to the varying
> > > tone,
> > > but I need the varying tone.)
> > >
> > > Dan Moyer
> >
> >
>
>
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