Having a need to beep the speaker at determined frequency and duration, I was using a combination of Beep() and Sleep() in kernel32 with success ... until running on Win98. I found out Beep() just doesn't work.

Fact of life: customers don't want to throw away a working computer! They still use Win98.

Scouring the web farther, I found various bits of code relating to inline assembler (WOW!) in Delphi :( . Looking at the assembly code, however, it seems it is writing directly to the chip at address 43. Looks like I could rewrite this in C and make a DLL, and call that from VFP. Should work for those situations where the customer is using Win9x OS, but I have to test the OS version before calling the DLL.

Is there an easier way of doing this?