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Excellent work! Thoughts: * Usenet post, not "FidoNet post". (The quoted author has a FidoNet email address, but that's not the same thing.) * I realize that
by TMWNN 4y ago
Excellent work! Thoughts:
* Usenet post, not "FidoNet post". (The quoted author has a FidoNet email address, but that's not the same thing.)
* I realize that the article isn't intended to discuss the PCjr/Tandy 1000 because their release dates are well known, but given how important they were to 1980s PC gaming, and there is already a discussion of the PC speaker's workings, a cursory discussion of what became "Tandy sound" seems appropriate.
(Tandy missed out on a big opportunity by not releasing an inexpensive soundcard for non-Tandy PCs. It would have further encouraged software developers to support Tandy sound. The sound card boom of the late 1980s showed just how much of untapped demand existed. A Tandy sound card c. 1985 could have completely taken over the market and more or less preempted the sound card boom because Tandy sound would have been "good enough" for most casual users.)
- CamperBob2 4y agoAlso, Creative Technology was founded by Sim Wong Hoo [1], not Sim Wong Woo. Interesting character. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_Wong_Hoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_Wong_Hoo