Hi jpuziano, Actually I have been playing around with the kernal beep. Haven't tested whether it plays when other audio is running though. I've written this so far. It plays the clock tower melody and then "chimes" the number of the hour if its on the hour (minutes=0): //tone length let>S=600 let>L=...

Thank you Marcus for your help thus far. You were right, the chime is repeating as scheduled except when I'm using a program that uses sound. In that case, the chime doesn't play though the schedule moves forward as it should.This was perhaps where my confusion was coming from before. Is there a way...

Thanks for the quick reply! So far though, I haven't found what you explained to work. I have found that when a scheduled time is missed due to the computer being off and the computer is turned back on as you mentioned, the chimes don't continue at the half hour intervals as I'd like but waits for t...

Hello, I have so far been unsuccessful at getting the following to work correctly: I would like to run a certain command (play a chime, actually) on every full and half hour of the day. How can I schedule the command to execute only on the exact full or half hour even if the start time was missed an...