• ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      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