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From: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "Beep" INIT - I'll give it to you, can you give it to me?
Message-ID: <13888@reed.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 21:23:36 GMT
References: <12948@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <12948@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>I have a little INIT program called "Beep".  It apparently patches the
>SysBeep routine so instead of producing dinky little bells or monkeys
>or boings, the Mac chimes with a three-note chord whenever it beeps.
...
>Problem is, it has a problem.  Every now and then, if you set your
>Mac's volume to 0, a beep will make your screen flash rapidly and your
>session go down in flames.  And Music Destruction - er, Music
>Construction Set causes this misanthropic phenomenon to occur with
>disturbing regularity no matter whan the current volume.
...
>Does anyone happen to have the source code for this program, or maybe
>source code for something like it, or source code for anything generic
>that patches into SysBeep or that generates a tri-tonal chord?

Sounds like Beep isn't treating the sound driver/manager with enough
respect.  Maybe it was written for an older system or maybe it wasn't tested
enough...  I think MCS expects to keep control of the sound chip... Anyway,
I don't have source for it, but for a SysBeep patch I wrote called Beep
Shuffle.  Maybe you can compare their disassemblies...

		"If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
					- Tikkler

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Alex Chaffee
chaffee@reed.UUCP
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