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OS/2 similarly had a third-party SPKRDD.SYS, for MMPM/2, that was widely circulated.
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Of course it didn't work with Windows NT, it being a driver for the DOS-Windows platform. (Seeing someone give someone else the number of the BBS to dial brings back memories … of FREQs.
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It came in a self-extracting archive named speak.exe, and could be found on the companion discs for books, in the extra utilities discs from OEMs, on Microsoft's FTP site, and on BBSes. It turned off interrupts for significant periods of time, which caused I/O problems with other devices but which was inherent in the nature of the hardware. With DOSBox-X, you can improve integration between the guest and host system by installing a special mouse driver that does require you to click in the Windows 3.11 window when returning to it, and does not require you to use Ctrl-Alt-F10 to release the. It was a driver named speaker.drv, written by Microsoft. Better mouse integration (64-bit Windows only) If you have 64-bit Windows, this system (by default) uses DOSBox-X, not the original DOSBox. It was a DOS-Windows 3.x and DOS-Windows 9x/ME thing. I would be interested to know the name, how it was installed, if it supported DOS and/or Windows, and any other history that might be available. It certainly worked well enough that Windows sounds were easily distinguishable.ĭoes anyone have any details for the audio driver I am referring to? I suspect there may be more than one, as it isn't a unique idea.
What I can't remember is what the driver was called, or if it was a DOS thing or a Windows 3.x thing. DosBox tells me that the Midi Drivers are not Installed, but I always thought that DosBox emulates a Dos PC with all Drivers of it. It was tinny and scratchy, but I remember it most definitely worked. I installed Windows 3.1 on my Hard Drive via DosBox and started it, it works well but I want to hear the System Sounds of Windows 3.1.
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This question Was it possible to listen to music and work on old PCs got me to thinking about how we frequently solved the problem of not having a sound card.Īs I remember it, there was some sort of driver we used to install that would play audio on the PC speaker. Obviously our jobs did not require sound cards, or fancy hardware of any kind, but as technically savvy users, we spent a lot of time trying to sneak a good video card or more memory into our systems. At the time, 386SX/25's were common for in-house technical support / customer service computers. Long ago in a galaxy far far away, back in the early 90's, I worked for a crappy clone company as a phone technician.
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