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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

what was really cool were the few games that would give realistic* music and speech from the internal motherboard speaker. No daughterboards or external speakers required. This was 386 era, I think.

* realistic as much as could be from that tiny internal speaker and 8 bits of data.

[–] 9point6 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think the PC speaker was literally a 1-bit speaker. Anything that sounded more detailed was PWM on that one bit

[–] khannie 2 points 4 months ago

That's correct. Jesus they were awful yokes but they were really mostly intended for letting you know that your hardware was bollixed at boot time.

PC's had mostly been business machines really until the 90s if my memory is correct.

If you wanted gaming you got a more gaming focused machine like an Amiga or console.

[–] TSG_Asmodeus 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Old lamps for new! Old lamps for new!"

[–] VelvetGentleman 2 points 4 months ago

I still hear this through my tinny onboard in my deepest dreams.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yes, I remember these! Countdown And Tex Murphy: The Martian Memorandum come to mind. I remember being amazed at the sounds suddenly coming out of our internal computer speaker. It even had something close to speech!
The manual also came with some info on making the sound even better using some alligator clips, but that went waaaay over my little head at the time :)

[–] thomasloven 1 points 4 months ago

That’s the only way to listen to the Sim City soundtrack.