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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MIDI .DLL driver
Message-ID: <7481@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 90 21:02:07 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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Now that I have Win 3.0, I want to replace the SOUND.DLL library with
one which would output beeps to MIDI instead of the piddly PC speaker.

I know I'm gonna need the DDK for this.

Questions:

1)	Is there a generic BEEP function that programs call, or are there
	multiple kinds of beeps ala Macintosh?  (Somehow, having the sound
	of pac-man dying seems appropriate for "Unrecoverable System Error"

2)	Someone mentioned getting a free copy of the DDK from Microsoft.
	I plan on getting the SDK anyway (is it out yet?) via mail-order, 
	but how does one get the DDK for free?

3)	I'd originally considered trying to play samples through the PC
	speaker, but it seems this would be more trouble timing-wise on
	a multitasking machine.  How does WIndows provide for programs
	that need a few seconds of 100% system resources?


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|    Randy Spangler                    |    The less things change, the    |
|    rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu    |    more they remain the same      |
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