BEEP

[TerryRitchie]

Just curious, when did QB64 lose the ability to produce a beep tone by using this?

PRINT CHR$(7) ' ASCII BEL character

While redoing my tutorials I came across this. I'm working on the sound tutorial now and loading some of the old programs didn't beep when they were supposed to.

ASCII values of 7 were used when terminals needed to send an audible alert to users.

[SMcNeill]

Just curious, when did QB64 lose the ability to produce a beep tone by using this?

PRINT CHR$(7) ' ASCII BEL character

While redoing my tutorials I came across this. I'm working on the sound tutorial now and loading some of the old programs didn't beep when they were supposed to.

ASCII values of 7 were used when terminals needed to send an audible alert to users.

SDL versions BEEP.  GL versions...  are all screwed up with the keyboard input behavior!!

[TempodiBasic]

Hi
Thanks I have never used it for BEEP but it is a good information that let me know also the BEEP statement of QB64

http://qb64.org/wiki/BEEP

QBasic/QuickBASIC
Older programs may attempt to produce a BEEP by printing CHR$(7) to the screen. This is no longer supported in QB64 after version 1.000.
You may have to replace instances of PRINT CHR$(7) in older programs to the BEEP statement to maintain the legacy functionality.

It is always true, I'll never end to learn!

PS I have thought that _CONTROLCHR could affect this, but it is not true

[TerryRitchie]

As Tempo pointed out it's in the Wiki. I should have looked first before I asked.

@TempodiBasic - Yeah, that's how we old schoolers used to get sound in our text adventure games :-)

Sword fight! beep..beep

Fire breathing dragon! beep..beep..beep

You're dead! beep

[Pete]

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