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Re: Sound Driver to simulate Sound Card???

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From: Scott Evernden
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:41
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In article <C1Hyvy.Fov@NoFC.Forestry.CA> dcarriga@NoFC.Forestry.CA (Dave Carrigan) writes:

>Try speak.exe on ftp.cica.indiana.edu. It's OK, but everything grinds
>to a halt when the speaker does its stuff - no mouse or anything. If
>it's a long .wav, you wait a while before you get control of your PC
>again.

There's actually an option to enable/disable 'rupts while the .WAV
thing happens (see Control Panel / Drivers / PC-Speaker / Setup).  The
noises get even worse sounding, if that's possible, but at least the
mouse can move...

-scott
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