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    Sounds in a game

    Hello everyone!
    I'm taking a programming class (introduction to C language) and for the final project we are writing the code for a game.
    My knowledge is pretty basic since this is a introductory class but still, to get some extra points (IN EXTREME NEED OF THAT ) I have to add some "frills", and one of the things I was thinking about was to add sounds, somehow (I already googled it but couldn't find anything).
    Do you know by any chance if there's any sound function/command in the stdio.h or any other c library and how could I implement that in my code?
    Again, nothing fancy please, I'm just a beginner!
    Thank you in advance for your contribution.

    PS: Feel free to suggest any simple frills that you may know.
    Thanks again!

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    The only sound you can get from a standard C program is to ring the terminal bell.
    Code:
    putchar('\a');
    fflush(stdout);
    However, this doesn't always work - terminals (and windows consoles) can be configured to be silent, even when the program emits a \a

    Standard C is very very simple in it's I/O capabilities (no sound, no graphics).
    If you want something fancy, then you need to say which operating system and compiler you're using.
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    Look up OpenAL or FMOD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kikika View Post
    Hello everyone!
    I'm taking a programming class (introduction to C language) and for the final project we are writing the code for a game.
    My knowledge is pretty basic since this is a introductory class but still, to get some extra points (IN EXTREME NEED OF THAT ) I have to add some "frills", and one of the things I was thinking about was to add sounds, somehow (I already googled it but couldn't find anything).
    Do you know by any chance if there's any sound function/command in the stdio.h or any other c library and how could I implement that in my code?
    Again, nothing fancy please, I'm just a beginner!
    Thank you in advance for your contribution.

    PS: Feel free to suggest any simple frills that you may know.
    Thanks again!
    If you are on a Windows machine, and have a set of Windows headers and libs you can do this...

    Code:
    #include <windows.h>
    #include<mmsystem.h>
    
    // beep bop and burble
    Beep(1000,100);  
    
    // play actual music and effects
    Playsound("MyNoise.wav",NULL,SND_FILENAME);
    Read more here --> PlaySound

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