[fpc-pascal] simple sound implementation

[Luca Olivetti]

En/na Marco van de Voort ha escrit:
>>> Naturally, this is not possible: The PC speaker is simply controlled 
>>> by a timer, which creates a square wave (on/off). In ancient DOS times 
>>> there was a trick by doing a frequency modulation, i.e. you turn the 
>>> timer on and off quite fast. But on Linux etc. the drivers don't 
>>> support such cheats.
>> <scratches chin> Hmmm... could you use that old Turbo Pascal code to do 
>> an inline of the ASM for it? (talking completely through my hat having 
>> never attempted such a thing on a linux platform)
> 
> Not really. It is not the asm or not, it is simply no hardware access from
> programs in principle, one program not being able to lock the entire CPU to
> modulate the speaker.
> 
> Of course you can, but then you go into the realm of customizing linux.

There's also the "pc-speaker" driver (though I never used it) that 
already does it:
http://www.geocities.com/stssppnn/pcsp.html

Bye
-- 
Luca