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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How quickly we forget the chip tunes of the PC Speaker, I used it in a computer lab one day to play a nearly undetectable high freq wave using logo. The PC Speaker was a pretty flexible little speaker

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used the Amiga disk drive to play music. It sounds like you would imagine. And will destroy the drive if you play too much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice I couldn't imagine playing music on my c64's 1541 drive the thing made scary knocking noises when it worked properly!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The c64 could do all sorts of music over the TV speakers, even voices. Who can forget Impossible Mission "Another visitor, stay a while, stay forever!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That laugh still haunts me. Also the SAM application for text to speech which was pretty good for the era

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Flexible enough that Access Software built a library called RealSound that could do 6-bit PCM audio over it. Which isn't great but is dramatically better than you'd expect. A bit over a dozen or so games used it.

I had one called Mean Streets that used it for things like voice. The game came with instructions for how to build a cable to connect your internal speaker to an RCA cable to run to a stereo or similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh man that unlocked a memory of some attempts I heard of voices through PC Speaker that weren't bad but definitely weren't great lol