Beeping!

[hartnell]

Old school BASIC sound support.

Why?

It would be great for development. Imagine you don't have the time to hunt down just the right sounds and need a placeholder. Use a beep or other old BASIC sound function.

www.atariarchives.org/basicxl/showpage.php?page=57

-hartnell

[Guilect]

like this
(a one line dll call)


Dim freq, dur ' frequency and duration
freq = 255 ' frequency, from 37 to 32,767
dur = 20   ' duration (msec)

msgbox "press ok to beep"

dll.callapi "kernel32.dll", "Beep", freq, dur


(assumes that your PC has an internal speaker)

I will look into generating your own midi tones

[hartnell]

There's no need to make the sound through the motherboard speaker. I realize that this is how it was done in the old days of Dos. Midi tones would work.

-hartnell