• PC Speaker/Modem Speaker
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Where can I get an application that can channel selected WAV files through the PC Speaker or the Modem Speaker?
The circuitry for the onboard speaker can not handle WAV files. The best it can do is beeps in different tones and octaves. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_bNXLcCEIQ[/media]
I need to mimic the Dial Up Noise without using a phone line.
[QUOTE=MIPS;28449487]The circuitry for the onboard speaker can not handle WAV files. The best it can do is beeps in different tones and octaves. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_bNXLcCEIQ[/media][/QUOTE] The odd thing is, that isn't 100% true. I mean, for the most part you are right. But for some reason, I can actually play WAV files through the system speaker on my AST Ascentia. You need a sound card plugged into the PCMCIA bay, due to it lacking a sound device built-in. But somehow, you can open a WAV file in Windows 95, and it actually plays a rough, but distinct representation of it. Sort of on par with an iPod Touch's internal speaker sound quality. The PCMIA card was designed to plug into a multimedia dock with a CD drive and speakers. So there is no speaker in the actual card, so it has to be coming from the internal speaker on the motherboard. I'm actually wondering if Altec Lansing incorporated this feature into card?
[quote=Wikipedia]Several programs, including MP (Module Player, 1989), ScreamTracker, Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker, and even device drivers for Linux[4] and Microsoft Windows, could play pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound through the PC speaker using special techniques explained later in this article. [B]Modern[/B] Microsoft Windows systems have PC speaker support as a separate device with special capabilities - that is, it cannot be configured as a normal audio output device. Some software uses this special sound channel to produce sounds. For example, Skype can use it as a reserve calling signal device for the case where the primary audio output device cannot be heard (for example because the volume is set to the minimum level or the amplifier is turned off).[/quote]
AFAIK Microsoft released long ago a tweaked driver so you could use the PC speaker for sound output. But it was buggy and barely worked with winXP. doubt it works with Vista or 7
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