At 11:43 PM 12/4/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>So I went off to real.com and downloaded version 5 of their real audio
>player software (the current version is 7). The site seemed to claim that
>my:
>
>486 75Mhz Pc with Vesa Local Bus
>win 3.11
>internet explorer 3.02
>30 Megs of ram
>
>might be able to make the software go, even though I do not have a sound
>card. If the miracle happened I would hear voices coming out of my tiny
>little PC speaker, that usually only makes beeps -- well enough to
>understand the words?
Well, now, there's this very interesting thing. I have a lexmark printer
and it comes with voices to tell me various things, "There is a paper jam"
"printing complete" etc. One time I installed it when my soundcard wasn't
working. The thing identified the lack of a sound card and asked if I
wanted to install a pc speaker sound driver. I said yes. Lo and behold,
it made my tinny little pc speaker speak! What's more, it didn't just make
it's own wavs come through, but windows system sounds too! In fact, any
and all wavs, midis, etc that normally would have come through the sound
card were coming through the pc speaker. most remarkable, I
thought. Didn't try realaudio. I don't know if realaudio decompression
happens at the cpu or sound card. Nevertheless, it has been demonstrated
that recognizable wav sounds can be played without a sound card.
Now, if only I could figure out what the heck the driver was...
Oh, and FYI, you don't need a 16bit card for realaudio. my eight bit card
does fine. You can pick up an old soundblaster pro for the cost of a
week's subsistence level grocery budget in most markets. (north america,
anyway)
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