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[–] 10 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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