Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:42:51 -0400 | From | Gary Simmons <> | Subject | Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!! |
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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > In message <19980920154436.61218@cerebro.laendle>, Marc Lehmann writes: > +----- > | On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:35:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > | > pcg@goof.com (Marc Lehmann) wrote on 17.09.98 in <19980917122639.44336@cer > | ebro.laendle>: > | > The *PC speaker*?! We're not talking about a bloody soundblaster! > | I wasn't. > +--->8 > > You're correct. Somewhere around the Net there's a DOS program that > produces voice output by playing strange games with the PC speaker; the > volume is very low, but the fidelity is quite good. > > (It's still nothing compared to the 8-bit DAC I got to play with on the C1P, > especially with the program that built four 6-bit audio waveforms and summed > them before writing to the DAC... why do PCs always look like a step > backwards?)
I recall that program as well =). I even used to have a Windows 3.1 driver that would trick programs that wanted to play to a sound card to use the pc speaker. (And it didn't sound too horrible for the little beeper either =)) On another note, is it actually possible to disable the speaker via software or is the only way to unplug the stupid thing?
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