On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:23:34 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
> Browsing a little bit through
> the simtel MS-DOS collection i found an archive called horndrv2.zip,
> which included a device driver, which is able to speak via built in
> speaker and is accessed like a file system, for example:
> echo hallo>$talk$ says hallo through the speaker.
> The driver seems to be very buggy and crashed my system every time
> I tested this thing and the speech doesn't sound good but perhaps a
> clever programmer can fix this (source codes are included).
> If somebody is interested in this: Go to http://www.simtelnet.net and
> search the DOS collection for horndrv2.zip.
> Regards Joerg
It sounds like you had better luck than I...
I tried installing the TALK.SYS driver on this 486SX-40. Immediately
after boot-up, at the "C:\>" promt, I entered:
ECHO HI>$TALK$
There was a burst of static from the system speaker and then nothing.
Seemed rather like the system's input had been re-directed.
Tried setting the "-i" flag to toggle interrupts during speech, but it
had no effect.
PS.. I see that the "reply-to" bug is still alive ;-)
