dhm wrote:
|Go into DOS. (You don't have to boot to DOS.)
|Enter QBASIC
|
|Type BEEP
|Type PRINT "Did it beep?"
|Press F5


Nice try--but no cigar.
Turn down the volume on your amplified speakers and see what you get.
(Hint: Windoze takes over all hardware calls.)

If you want to do this, you have to be in Real DOS(tm).
...and IIRC, QBASIC isn't part of a default W98 install.
(Anyway, *I* installed it seperately.)


This trick can be also be done quite simply from a batch file.
(The file should be created in an ASCII-compliant text editor;
Windoze fonts show you those stupid, useless squares for too many things.)

The 1st line is:
@ECHO OFF

The 2nd line is:
CLS

To make the 3rd line:
ECHO{hit the spacebar once}
Make sure NumLock is engaged.
Hold down the Alt key and on the Numerical keypad enter 0 0 7
then release the Alt key.
Do a carriage return so that ECHO{space}and that character (a block with a dot)
are the only things on that line. 
cache of http://www.physics.utah.edu/~wiencke/elab/ascii/ascii.html

The 4th line is:
ECHO  Did it ding?

Note: Carriage returns (blank lines) after the last line of text
are not advised in batch files.


This must also be executed from Real DOS(tm) to sound the internal speaker.


To create the file from a Command Prompt:
ECHO @ECHO OFF > C:\Ding.bat
ECHO CLS >> C:\Ding.bat
ECHO ECHO ^G >> C:\Ding.bat
ECHO ECHO Did it ding? >> C:\Ding.bat

Notice that all except the 1st line have TWO greater than signs.
The ^G is what shows up on the command line when you do Alt 0 0 7.

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