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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help on sound effects
Message-ID: <6117@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 28 Dec 88 17:19:00 GMT
References: <766@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream/Widget Systems (San Francisco)
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In article <766@hpwala.wal.hp.com> boba@hpwala.wal.hp.com (Bob Alexander) writes:
>I'm writing a lunar lander game patterned after the old arcade version
>and the even older original written at MIT.  But I'm having trouble
>making sound effects for the rocket thrust and (heaven forbid!) the
>crash.  I understand how to make pure notes with the IBM's speaker,
>but could someone please advise me on how to make noise?  Or is it
>not possible?

    How 'bout random bytes sent to the speaker port?  Sounds
like white noise to me!

	     Tim

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