Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!
Gary Simmons (tuxkamen@idirect.com)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:42:51 -0400
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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