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PC games had great music by the late 80s, it just wasn't cheap. Sierra On-Line is notable for supporting the Roland MT-32, starting with King's Quest IV in 1988
by mrob 5y ago
PC games had great music by the late 80s, it just wasn't cheap. Sierra On-Line is notable for supporting the Roland MT-32, starting with King's Quest IV in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32
- Joe_Cool 5y agoMany games supported digitized output over a DAC on the LPT port. I remember building one myself. There are many tutorials. A moderately fast 486 can output CD-Quality sample rates with such a thing. Covox had one in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing