I am playing games in FreeDOS (SimAnt) and whenever I launch the game I have to turn off sound and music again. Is there a way to avoid this like turning off the speaker altogether?
RintaDev wrote on 2023-07-27, 00:23:I am playing games in FreeDOS (SimAnt) and whenever I launch the game I have to turn off sound and music again. Is there a way to avoid this like turning off the speaker altogether?
I'm not sure about the detail. Does the game play sound/music over PC speaker?
If the speaker is directly connected to the motherboard 4-pin header then I don't think it's simple. If you have an ISA sound card with a PC speaker input header, I think you can connect your motherboard's PC speaker output to the sound card, and control this through your sound card's mixer program.
If you generally don't want the speaker you can unplug it from most motherboards.
Also search if the game has any command-line parameters to start without sound.
Sim ant has Option for disabling effects and music in its menu ?
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Open simant.cfg with an editor and change "Sound Mode" to 0, that should silence it.
SimAnt also supports Covox, so you can use an external parallel port dongle for SFX.. 😃
I just mention it, because I once made a video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrYNfFUPz0
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Kalle wrote on 2023-07-27, 19:00:Open simant.cfg with an editor and change "Sound Mode" to 0, that should silence it.
This worked perfectly! Thanks!
