Does Blitzmax work fine without a sound card?

If so what happens? I recall problems in Blitz3D...

it's a good question, you could test it by disabling your sound card in Device Mangler.

I would assume that there would just be no sound output. ?

The greatest danger in the world is to assume anything about windows. :)

I have a machine without sound and blitzmax works fine on it.

What O/S?

And you are actually loading and playing sounds on the machine without a soundcard? :)

Yes, BlitzMax has a null audio driver specifically for handling such setups.

coooool.

IPete2.

Brilliant thanks Skid.

I ask because some of the supposedly-casual friendly games actually didn't run on this pc I was building for a friend yesterday (it didn't have a sound card) - but wasn't able to test bmax.

Yeah works fine for me too, I've an old machine with no card in it and has no problems. Would be nice if it did not load the sounds though.

Is there a way to detect when BMax is using the null audio driver?

i.e.

If NullAudioDriver() then 

Endif

Great to know--my old BlitzBasic projects really didn't like systems that didn't have a sound card, and I'd been kinda-wondering whether or not this was still an issue...