Re: System beep ignored?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.961002210240.18840A-100000@general3.asu.edu>,
Adam Myrow  <adam.myrow@asu.edu> wrote:
>     How come when you assign a sound for the standard beep under system
>6.0.1, it's ignored under ProDOS 8?  I can understand such sounds as "disk
>ejected" being ignored but why the system beep?  Anybody know? 

   Because under GS/OS, the system beep is a patchable call to the
toolbox, and can thus be rerouted to do anything you want. Under
ProDOS 8, the beeps are almost always generated by a call to a
ROM routine, which is MUCH harder to patchout. The GS/OS beep used
to just call the ROM routine internally, but it got more features
added later.

Nathan Mates
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