> Not so, 'windows speaker driver' will let you play .wav files (badly)
> without a sound card by pulsing the speaker line fast enough to
> generate
> audio tones.
> see : http://www.agsci.kvl.dk/~jerejej5/pcspeak.htm
> for more info (& download links)
> Ben.

I mentioned that in a previous post. I have it(straight from
Microsoft's download site) installed on a machine here.  When I
installed it, there was a calibration screen that froze so I couldn't
use it at all.  After restarting, the driver was installed and played
the usual Win95 startup sound.  What came out sounds absolutely nothing
like the file played through a proper sound card.  Also, when playing a
sound the driver requires so many resources that the computer can't do
anything else while playing a sound.  This worked out for me because
the machine I installed on is a monitorless print server and I just
needed to know when it was done booting.  For any *decent* sound with
any significant clarity, a sound card is *required*.  Personal
experience.

-Eric J

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