First off, thanks for reading this. I am using NewDeal office (a DOS suite) on a PC without a sound card. I know, there are some drivers for Windows capable of producing sound, playing .wav files though PC Speaker, and there are some programs for DOS, which do the same. My question is: can one find a DOS driver for PC speaker intended for such performance, somehow cheating the computer, making him believe there's a means of playing sound. Most respectully yours, ----Vladislav

Vladislav, I am not sure if this is what you are looking for and I have never tried this program, so I can't say anything about it. http://www.geocities.com/scwis/disk.html AB111.zip An old DOS based PC speaker WAV player

As far as I know, there's no such a driver for DOS.

Actually, there is one. It was a DOS driver. Designed for Windows 3.x systems. Microsoft at one point had it on its download site, but it was removed long ago. It was for people with no sound card and used the speaker to handle Windows sounds and worked with a few games of the time. It was called SPEAKER.exe and may still be around. However finding it is a major problem because there are a number of other programs and products called Speaker.exe out there now, most are for Windows 9x and do different things. It may work only with very old programs because the "sound card" it emulated is no longer sold or supported by anyone. But it did work with Windows 3.x sounds output. So search for Speaker.exe and speaker.zip and you may find some web site that still has it.

I have the driver like what JackG is refering too, but it's call speaker.drv. I will send it to you if you want it? \\\|||/// (@@) ASHLEY4.

Thank you, guys. Actually, I am not only aware of the existance of a Win3.x driver, but have two of them, but, I don't use them at all because I don't run Win3.x. Thus, if the driver you have kindly offered me is not a plain DOS one, it's unfortunately, of no use to me. Thank you anyway. ----It's been a pleasure, ------- Vladislav

I have speak.exe (22KB) on an old 720 KB floppy. I got it off of some BBS lonnng ago. I used it in dos (old 286) for lack of a sound card. I opened it in a hex editor and it's apparently written by PKWARE. At the end of the file it says to run it in an empty directory or a formatted floppy. It also says DO NOT run it in the windows or windows\system directory. Let me know if you'd like it. (I usually hang out in the 9X forum.)