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No Beep With printf("\a") - SOLVED

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First post, by jennifer3

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A program I wrote and am running under DOSBox cointains the following line of code:

printf("\a");

I would expect to hear a beep, but there's nothing.

Absent making the above line of code work, is there some sort of workaround for this? Like some sort of function call to a sound package that would do this?

I would prefer something simple, not something with a lot of features I would never use. My code and data segments are getting rather full and I don't want to go over 64K on either. Please don't suggest a different memory model.

I'm running DOSBox 0.74 under Debian Linux 6 (Wheezy) with the MATE desktop. My program is compiled under Turbo C.

Jennifer

Last edited by jennifer3 on 2015-02-17, 10:45. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 3, by ripsaw8080

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PC speaker sound is emulated in DOSBox, but the "bell" character's beep when printed out is not implemented because games generally don't need it. However, in Turbo C you can produce the beep at the classic frequency with:

#include <dos.h>

void beep (void) {
    sound(900);
    delay(333);
    nosound();
}

Reply 3 of 3, by kolano

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jennifer3 wrote:

Now if someone could tell me how to mark this thread solved ...

It's a bit atypical to do here, but you should be able to rename the title of threads you've posted. Use the "edit" button on the first post.

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