Windows Audio Before Soundcards (Sounds Terrible) | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2017
- Before Soundcards were common place, many of us had to make do with the PC Speaker for sound effects on our IBM PC Compatibles. Some games utilised this limited medium to good effect, but Windows was always still lacking in sound. That is, until Microsoft developed the PC Speaker Audio driver for Windows. This allows Waveform sound to be played through the PC Speaker in Windows, so you could hear the fabulous startup sounds of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. You could also play your various audio files, and even MIDI files (debatable). So I thought we could have a listen and compare how PC Speaker WAVE files sound compare to Soundblaster driven counterparts (it's not great). Also, we take a look at a few games and the software innovations which allowed some impressive use of the PC Speaker, in a bid to keep up with the Amigas and Atari STs of the rapidly moving world.
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When you tried to play games at 1am and it came through the PC Speaker at full blast
Then there were us Amiga users rocking stereo sound and sampled audio without having to buy a sound card that cost as much as the computer itself.
I remember unhooking the speaker, and running the two wires out the back of the computer. I then ran the sound into a 30 watt amp I made using an electronics kit. I then drove a BIG 5 inch speaker I got from Radio shack. Sounded a lot better, but still had that PC speaker sound LOL.
I love the sounds of PC speaker, it's the sound of my youth!
I was a spoiled kid and I got a top of the line early 90s Windows 3.11 PC with a 4x CD-ROM, 2 disk drives, Pentium running at a blistering 55MHZ, crazy amount of memory, 16MB of RAM, 2 HDDs @200+MB total, 16 million colors and Sound Blaster. My parents got the hookup with someone that was a friend and did computer repair and custom builds for a living.
Wow that's crazy. In today's age, I can plug my guitar into my PC, simulate real amps, and have it play back real time through my speakers with nearly 0 latency. We sure have come a long way. Sound on old hardware isn't something people often talk about, it's interesting to watch, that's for sure.
Back in the 80's and early 90's most IBM compatibles didn't have a sound card. Meanwhile I was rocking out to the glorious sound of Paula on my much superior Amiga :)
I was 3 years old in early 1994, and I owned a 486 Multimedia PC with DOS, and I played Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit, Mystic Towers, Commander Keen 4, Math Blaster, and many other games with full stereo sound and VGA. I never used the PC speaker. I wasn't in school yet, so I could play games all day every day. You have no idea how much I miss those carefree times of being 3 and 4. Now I'm turning 27. :(
I take the PC speaker over tinnitus any day
How the hell was a PC Speaker and a soundblaster able to produce voice sound!? That’s crazy!
I'll never forget, during highschool I was the the only one with a sound card. No matter how hard I tried to explain these games actually have music and even voices, my friends just wouldn't believe it, and got sick of me raving about it. They said things like "a sound blaster just makes your PC speaker louder" without ever actually having heard it.
The worst is going from a sound card back to the PC speaker. When I was a kid I got my dad's old 486 when he bought a new Pentium PC. One day I tried to connect a tape player's output to the line-in of the sound card (Soundblaster 16, I think) so I could record some WAVs of music clips and sound effects. Long story short, I blew out the sound card because I accidentally had the tape player's volume set too high.
The first time I actually heard sounds from my PC Speaker was when I fired up Star Control 2. It was like some sort of magic. My friends thought I was fooling them around until they tried it home for themselves. I also remember an adventure game called Amazon Queen or something which had actual sounds and understandable speech coming out of a PC speaker.
Ahh, Passport.MID! I would recognize that tune anywhere.
Wolfenstein 3D can play digitized sound through the PC speaker.
I remember that driver. What a revelation it was being able to play wavs on it! The one I had you could select whether to enable to disable interrupts, so you could get much better quality out of it but the computer would be frozen while it was playing. Wasn't actually that great.
Back in the days when people dissed gaming as immature and looked down to C64s and Amigas.
Pinball Fantasies had really good sound from the PC-speaker, with both MOD music and sound effects. It worked best on old computers with a "real" speaker.
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