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- From: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
- Subject: mmpm/2 and pc speaker
- Message-ID: <199325.4881.39517@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:26:24 EST
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- In a previous message, David Charlap writes...
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- DC> Maybe, maybe, it could be done with the spooler disabled. The reason
- DC> the DOS software fails is that the print spooler is buffering and
- DC> delaying all output to the printer ports. If you disable the spooler
- DC> (I don't know if this can be done), they might work OK.
-
- Hmmm... I remember running some DOS software supporting a D/A
- convertor on the parallel port under OS/2 and it worked. I must have
- had the spooler disabled or something. I think I'll try doing that
- again.
-
- DC> As for MMPM/2 drivers, you'd need something to suspend the spooler
- DC> (not too hard), and then directly access it's ports (harder). I think
- DC> a device driver might be able to do this, but I don't know if two
- DC> devices (spooler and your sound driver) can be configured to use the
- DC> same port or not.
-
- Right now, I am trying to see what the possibility of writing a
- device driver for such a device would be. Seeing as I'm a new C
- programmer, I don't know what technicalities are involved.
-
- Much thanks for your reply! It gives me something to think about
- now.
-
- Mike.
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