The closest I ever came to play a wav file on the HP3000 was using a US 
Robotics Voice Modem. This allowed me to dial a number an play a sound 
file message, and it didn't work very well. Later because of MPE 
hardware compatibility issues I moved the voice modem to a Linux box, 
sent the modem request from the HP3000 to the Linux box using IPC calls, 
that worked very well!

In a normal HP3000 application environment you are limited to terminal 
base applications, and terminals only know one sound, <cntrl-G>, or %7, 
and that's it. Now with terminal emulators running on machines that can 
listen and talk back to you, their is a way from the HP3000 to tell the 
host machine to play a sound file. Look at QCTerm for Windows, by AICS 
Research. It is still available at
http://www.aics-research.com/qcterm/index.html

Using Cobol, Basic, Fortran, SPL, C/iX, Speedware, Cognos Quick, even 
perl on MPE, language is irrelevant. QCTerm has a scripting language and 
similar to a web browser allows you to execute multi-media objects 
(sound, video, pictures) on the client machine, from the host server 
(terminal based application on the HP3000).

I still want a native GUI environment for MPE/iX:

Mike.


SUBSCRIBE HP3000-L Anonymous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would just like to know if there is other sound we could send to System to 
> play a wav sound file other than "beep" for "Default Beep"?
>
> Thanks!
>
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