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You don't need a speaker. It does it through the pc, something called a PC speaker. Which are sounds produced by the CPU. If you play DOS games a lot, and don't have a sound card, you'd understand better what I mean, that is if I'm still losing you.
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I'd hate to tell ya, but you are completely wrong about the speaker.
In order to produce a sound, an object has to have a sound unit, which trembles and produces sounds (that's just rough, I don't know how it works in detail). Processor does not have any built-in feature to produce sound, the only purpose of processor is to process code. All the dos-games sounds go thru the speaker, which is connected to the motherboard. But, the speaker cannot produce complex sounds. Therefore all that kind of sounds go thru the soundcard. And if you set-up dos games properly, some of them can use soundcard as well.
Now, there is a special driver (I think, it's called PC Speaker for Windows). If you remove the soundcard and install this driver, all the complex music will go thru the speaker (in a mono and really really plain form)... but that's another story.
The point is, all the beeping sounds go only thru the SPEAKER.
That's how it was on Pentium I, II and III computers that I've used.
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