The alarm function.

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What exactly does it do? What's proper syntax for it?

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alarm 0;

it makes the CPU... beep Smiling

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hmmm... I did not know that. Smiling

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ermmm wait..

0 needs to be replaced withthe number of seconds you want the alarm to last. Smiling

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seconds?
can it be a fraction of a second?

does it use the sound card or the PC speaker [the one in the tower]?

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I dont see why it couldn't be less than a second...

and yeah it uses the speaker in the tower.

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hmmm....
can you get different tones?

[remember those old DOS games that used the PC speaker?]

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nope.

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