I remember one time - before sound cards - you could very cleverly tell a PC to play sounds and music from its speaker. Only downside was that it suspended the interupts until the sound was finished.
Anyway - I was at an office and someone (NOT ME!!) send an email with the attachment from "When Harry met Sally", the famous fake orgasm scene. You can imagine the events when 20 PC all decided to almost simultaniously play that, and you could not stop it until it finished. Ah, the days before political correctness. Take Care Dave -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Tuesday, 8 June 2010 08:52 To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT - Magic Mushroom song from the 1980s On 8 June 2010 08:37, Dylan Tusler <[email protected]> wrote: Does anyone remember a clever little app that allowed IBM XT computers to play a song via the primitive PC Speaker that was installed in them? I think it was an ad jingle for some kind of room deodorizer called a Magic Mushroom? (I remember being blown away by it in about 1987. This was on green-screen XT computers, that normally only went "beep".) I'm trying to find out about it for a nostalgic presentation. Not what you're asking for but this runs on an original 5150 apparently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrwGxwLuo5I I recall reading some time ago that you have to defrag the HDD well to get that ASCII streaming that smooth. lol -- David Connors ([email protected]) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
