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Old August 9th 08, 06:44 PM posted to rec.aviation.simulators
wbertram
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Default Tracon II, Win XP, no sound

tscottme wrote:
I recently rediscovered my favorite computer sim, Tracon. I used it in
college, the college used it for ATC training. I loved it, that was several
operating systems and PCs ago. I've been able to get Tracon II (or Tracon
for Windows) running again on my Win XP but there is no sound. Can anyone
help me with this. I;ve tried copying the only sound related driver from
Tracon to my c:\windows\sys32\drivers subdirectory and that didn't work.

I sure would appreciate any help or suggestions.

Great game!!!

The computers at the time this was developed didn't have audio
capabilities or speakers.. They generally had a little "noise maker"
which was more like a buzzer, than anything else. The Tracon developers
developed a very clever way to make almost audible sound come out of
this noisemaker. I doubt that there is any to use this with rhe audio
systems on present computers.

The game CAN display text messages though, and that is the way you will
have to use it.

What version of windows do you have it running with?