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Cupholder.exe (lemmy.zip)
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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Are you trying to make me feel old?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Back in my day, that used to be the only way a computer could produce sound. Later on you could purchase a specialized sound card that would take up a slot in your motherboard.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I thought I was the cool kid when I got my SoundBlaster 16!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The anticipation as you figure out a new IRQ and DMA configuration so you could play with your new toy

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My dad used to disable the motherboard speaker because the noises games made back then were more annoying than fun. We eventually got a soundcard, and that was awesome.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Damn, I feel old now....

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And you could plug in your joystick into the soundcard, because where else would you put joystick, right? Perfectly logical.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They do, but it’s a very simple speaker that’s really more of a buzzer than what you might think of as a speaker.

Many motherboards use a combination of beeps to report hardware errors if you fail on power on.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

386 era machines often had a 4 inch speaker in the front panel. It couldn't do much. Some main boards still come with headers for a speaker, some even come with an electret beeper

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Slightly related, it is really annoying you cant stop the boot speaker on the PS4 without voiding your warranty and ripping the speaker out

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A good number do, but you won't hear anything during normal operation. If your vomputer has ever beeped at you when you try to turn it on at 0% battery, accessed the bios, etc., there's a good chance that was the motherboard speaker.

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