Msg: Re: [Poll] Sound support feature in vDos-lfn for XyWrite

Hi James,

I just tested Nota Bene in vDosXy 1.0, but I cannot hear any sound, at least with the default setting. However, I can hear beeps when running Nota Bene in vDos-lfn. As I am still new to Nota Bene, I don't know how to set the default pitch and length of an error beep in Nota Bene. By now all sound I can hear from vDosXy is the chr(7) beep, but nothing else.

Wengier

On Thursday, May 26, 2016 5:56 PM, Wengier W wrote:

Hi James,

Thanks for your response too. I will test Nota Bene and see how its beep works in vDosXy when I get back home. However, unlike in recent vDos-lfn versions, I have never heard the beeps when using XyWrite 3 or 4 in vDosXy. By examining the vDosXy source code, I have noticed that its sound implementation is rather rudimentary compared with DOSBox or vDos-lfn, so its sound might not work with most applications.

Wengier

On Thursday, May 26, 2016 5:38 PM, James Woolley wrote:

Hi Wengier,

Thanks for asking. I'd prefer to have speaker=on as the default, but
I don't feel at all strongly about that.

By the way, I hear the Nota Bene error beeps with vDosXY 1.0.

You probably know that in Nota Bene (v.3, at least), the user can set
the default pitch and length of an error beep.

James

At 26.5.16 12:51, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>As some of you already know, recent versions of vDos-lfn and
>vDos-lfn for XyWrite feature sound support through PC speaker. This
>feature is not present in original vDos or vDosXy. With sound
>support, it will for example beep when an error message is displayed
>in XyWrite 3/4. The PC speaker sound support is turned on by default
>in the current vDos-lfn for XyWrite installer, although it can be
>easily turned off by setting "SPEAKER=OFF" in config.txt. Note
>however that as discussed in an earlier thread that compared with no
>sound support, it might sometimes slow down the execution of a
>program when the program makes use of the PC speaker. Hence I would
>like to know how many people here want the PC speaker sound support
>feature to be turned on by default in the vDos-lfn for XyWrite

>installation. Thanks for your opinions.
>
>Wengier