On 24 Mar 00 at 0:00, Pippi wrote:
>>Want your soundcard-less PC to talk? yes? it CAN be done! My printer
>>has a cute little trick I've harvested. If it encounters a PC with no
>>sound card it offers the option of installing a "speaker driver" which
>>allows the printer software to put it's wav file error messages through the
>>speaker.
>>Well, turns out it's hilariously simple. Put the file "speaker.drv" into
>>c:\windows\system (and I bet it could be worked in DOS) and put
>>wave=speaker.drv into your system.ini under [drivers] section.
>>Want it? http://members.home.net/yvp/SPEAKER.DRV
>>it's pretty small, I didn't bother zipping it.
>>Don't expect the sound to sound very good, after all, it's your PC speaker!
>>I dont think it's a copywrite violation, it's only a single weird little
>>driver.
Windows 3.x originally came with a speaker driver and I used to use
another one I found. It is cool (expecially if your PC has a real
speaker instead of one of those tiny piezoelectric thingies). The one
I used would not sound very good if you moved the mouse while the
.wav was playing.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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