True. And at least some of us have now upgraded to Sound Blaster! :-D
Cheers,
M.
Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Sun, 2 Sep 2007, schreef Mark Wood:
Naturally, this is not possible: The PC speaker is simply controlled by a
timer, which creates a square wave (on/off). In ancient DOS times
Naturally, this is not possible: The PC speaker is simply controlled
by a timer, which creates a square wave (on/off). In ancient DOS times
there was a trick by doing a frequency modulation, i.e. you turn the
timer on and off quite fast. But on Linux etc. the drivers don't
support such cheats
Java is glueware really. It's great for net-traversal situations.
Pascal is an application development platform. And IMHO, the best of breed.
We use both for situations where they are suited, respectively.
Having said that, IT departments in businesses are amazingly stupid and
opt for the wron
It makes better sense when you put it that way.
Cheers,
Mark.
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote:
On 8/13/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
place.
If you do happen to make money on the side with it: congratulations.
But d
I have a lot more examples of such problems using the "Pascal" and the
way it "sounds"...
And in the bottom line, it's all about marketing.
It would probably help if it had a name other than "Free". It refers to
free as in OS, of course, but many people read it as "free" (as in beer)
a
It strikes me that whilst it may not be the best programming form, the
same thing could be done readily with a global variable?
M.
Tom Walsh wrote:
Mark Wood wrote:
I have found that there are some functional differences that
Metaware has over
fpc, one example is the yield() function which
I have found that there are some functional differences that Metaware has over
fpc, one example is the yield() function which returns the intermediate result
of a function call.
?
'?' indeed! I am fascinated! What does yield do exactly... presumably it
returns a result from the functi
