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Re: Using the SPEAKER.DRV with Windows 3.0

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From: George Mills
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 04:11
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smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal) writes:

>Dear Windows Programmers:

>The speaker driver which Microsoft released with Windows 3.1 sounds
>pretty good.  I wonder if there is a way to hack a   function like
>sndPlaySound ("*.wav",SND_SYNC) to be used with Windows 3.0.  I'd
>like to be able to glue such a function, along with the driver, to
>a program running under 3.0.  Is it impossible?

>Thanks,

>Stuart Lichtenthal smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Forget it, Multi-Media is significant part of windows 3.1.

Speaker.drv is not worth it, it's fun to play with for about 15 minutes.
Buy a Thunderboard for about $60.00 mail order. And 3.1 windows upgrade
for $40 +/-.
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Subject: Re: Using the SPEAKER.DRV with Windows 3.0
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