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3845397 No.3845397 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any other computer games that made use of the keyboard lights for status or gimmicks like Cotton x68000? I don't remember ever seeing this on a PC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzM6STCiCM

>> No.3845416

>>3845397
It's impossible since most operating systems don't let you have that much low level access to the hardware to control things such as keyboard lights, that being said it is a cool gimmick

>> No.3845429

>>3845416
Yeah.

I was messing around with trying to play sounds through the mobo speaker, but windows 7, 8, and 10 won't let you make hardware calls to it. Instead it just plays the alert tone though my headphones.

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>>3845416
You can turn all the PC light functions on or off through software, in dos at least.

>>3845429
I had a driver to use PC Speaker for audio in Win 3.1 pic related. Windows doesn't allow direct hardware access anymore, but it used to.

>> No.3845501

>>3845397
An old Commodore 64 emulator I used to use utilized it as a drive LED. Think it was CCS64 or Vice

>> No.3845572

>>3845450
>I had a driver to use PC Speaker for audio in Win 3.1

Yeah, I was trying to do that on modern windows.
My point was modern windows doesn't let you do that anymore.

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That's really cool but the ompatibility issues will be too many for most developers to care

>>3845450
Why did windows stoppped direct hardware access?

>> No.3845638

>>3845501
MAME can do it to, as I recall.

>> No.3845641

>>3845429
>>3845416
Is this why DosBox can't use the actual PC speaker?

I don't like the way DosBox emulates the PC speaker, it sounds nothing like the real thing.

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>>3845397
That looks gay as fuck.

>> No.3845647

>>3845397
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzM6STCiCM [Embed]
That was the gayest shit I've ever seen.

>> No.3845720

>>3845631
>Why did windows stoppped direct hardware access
Security reasons probably, that or some obscure mobo freaked out and crashed the whole system.

>> No.3845732

>>3845397
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TCqMI59XE

>> No.3845819

>>3845732
completely ridiculous

>> No.3845907

>>3845631
Early OSs had very little concept of security since it was assumed that anyone using the system was knowledgeable about it and responsible.

In modern OSs, you could probably say that security is the #1 priority due to the massive increase in software distribution (meaning malicious software can spread easily) and the massive drop in user competence.