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Ken Silverman, creator of the BUILD Engine, made MP3PC.exe that's still hosted on his Utilities page. I'm pretty sure I used this on a 486 years ago and was sur
by Minor49er 3y ago
Ken Silverman, creator of the BUILD Engine, made MP3PC.exe that's still hosted on his Utilities page. I'm pretty sure I used this on a 486 years ago and was surprised at how well it worked, though it apparently is picky about MP3 encodings. From the description:
> MP3PC.EXE (73,483 bytes): Got no sound card? MP3PC plays MP3 files through your PC speaker! For some reason I like to make programs work through the PC speaker. Some people still don't know that it's possible to play real sounds through it. Unfortunately, you must run this in pure DOS mode for it to work.
His Utilities page can be found at: http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm
- starik36 3y agoWow, I just learned that he is also the author of PNGOut.
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoThere were entire games, eg. star control 2, that played sample audio through the PC speaker. It included voice sample in parts (eg. The pkunk swear words).
- Scali 3y agoIt was actually patented by Access Software, under the name of RealSound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound
- djmips 3y agoWhat a dumb patent. We were already doing this before their patent. We just ignored it and they didn't try to challenge. I remember talking to my EE father at the time and he said the idea of doing PWM for audio was obvious and ludicrous to patent.