[fpc-pascal] simple sound implementation
Marc Santhoff
M.Santhoff at t-online.de
Mon Sep 3 06:30:15 CEST 2007
Am Sonntag, den 02.09.2007, 16:56 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
> Marc Santhoff schrieb:
> >
> > Ahem, maybe you know how to control the volume, too?
>
> 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.
I understand.
And since the control-sequences-solution is linux console only I have to
understand that there is no platform independent way of making
distingishable beeps since the ancient times when the CPU was a 8086 at
4 or 6 MHz or so, too.
<mumbling curses censored/>
Thanks for explaning,
Marc
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