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SubjectRe: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!
olaf@bigred.inka.de (Olaf Titz)  wrote on 15.09.98 in <E0zIt8T-0003ka-00@danube.inka.de>:

> > > rates; they used what was effectively a single-bit ADC to read from the
> > > tape...
> > Similar to the C-64. If you multiplied the single bit value with 15
> > and stored the result in the SID volume register, you had an audio
> > cassette player!
>
> Which sounded worse or better than the Linux PC-speaker sound device?

Might have been better, or equal.

I do know that the hardware for the PC speaker is about the same as for
the old Apple ][ speaker, except that the PC can do a square wave in
hardware, and the Apple needed to do it by CPU.

I once converted an Apple ][ sound routine for the PC speaker. It was
pretty straightforward.

MfG Kai

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