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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DisplayBeep()
Message-ID: <10686@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 7 Apr 90 00:27:31 GMT
References: <1990Apr5.005037.5092@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Apr5.005037.5092@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>	From my (small) experience with the Amiga libraries I am of
>the understanding that, when the screen flashes, it is caused by the
>DisplayBeep function. This happens a lot during telecommunications
>with C-g always being interpreted that way. It is also VERY annoying.
>Is there any way to change it to a beep, like the Macs? Perhaps my
>choice of beeps, also like the Mac? Just wondering, it is one of the
>cuter things about Macs. I have a 68020 and use setcpu to copy
>kickstart to fastrom, if that is required.

The way to do this is to SetFunction() the DisplayBeep() call.
There are many untilities that do this...

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