The Picard ManeuverM to [email protected] • 11 months ago"Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square230fedilinkarrow-up11.33K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•11 months agoForgive 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoThat’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.
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
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.