Last year I wrote a video game in the old GW-BASIC interpreter and crunched it into an EXE file using the BASCOM compiler. This program has 9 simple sound routines that add a lot to enrich the game. Since I used the BASIC sound statement, the sound played great through the onboard speaker of the legacy IBM Thinkpad laptop I wrote it on. If I run the program on newer machines, however, the sound doesn’t come through much at all– it’s there, but it’s very quiet. Is this issue caused by the existence of third-party sound cards like my ATI Radeon Mobility in the newer machine? If so, can I write GW-BASIC or Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition code (XP compatible) that will bypass the card in favor of base sound, or what should I do?
