Assembler in Delphi

[Glenn9999]

How far can you go with a Delphi program in doing assembler calls? I assume asm blocks are valid (?), but I'm wondering if there are any system calls to be done in ASM that wouldn't be a good idea?

(basically asking because I'm finding I'm wanting to do a couple of things that either don't exist in the toolset or don't work as I would like out of the toolset)

 

[Glenn9999]

OK since this probably won't get anyone going, I'll rephrase it to go after the things I'm wanting.

1) Windows.Beep is not functioning as the documentation indicates it will. I am looking for to use it like so:

Windows.beep(1000, -1);

The documentation says -1 will be continuous until another call to Windows.beep occurs. It doesn't work on XP unless I specify a positive duration. Then Windows.beep doesn't work on Windows 98/ME PERIOD.

2) I want to change the text mode of the console. There was a procedure in the Turbo Pascal CRT unit called TextMode() that did that, but I am failing to find how to do it in Win32.

Any thoughts?