RS> Presumably it was only disconnected because of the
RS> Spirits tendency to go totally bonkers and be dumping
RS> heaps of trash to the screen and so waking you up.

PE> Although my soundblaster cards aren't.

RS> Sure, thats doable, but I really dont see any
RS> point in disconnecting the system speaker anymore.

PE> Also I have some shareware software which beeps the speaker.

Yeah, I hadnt really thought thru that bit about you computing at
3am in person type stuff and not wanting to wake anyone else up.

Probably would be best to have Bink run an alarm event in that
fault situation, which then say runs a soundblaster audio alarm.
@EOT:

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