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No, RealSound was not a Covox-like hardware dongle. It was PC speaker only. Play the first few minutes of Mean Streets or Martian Memorandum or Countdown in DOS
by suprjami 11mo ago
No, RealSound was not a Covox-like hardware dongle. It was PC speaker only. Play the first few minutes of Mean Streets or Martian Memorandum or Countdown in DOSBox and you'll hear it.
- nine_k 11mo agoI know. Experiencing that made me learn about PWM, and I was able to reproduce, harshly, a voice sample on my 2 MHz 8-bit home computer, by bit-banging the tape recorder port's 1-bit output.
- EvanAnderson 11mo agoI did this on an Apple IIe years before I had a sound card on my PC (or a sampler for my Amiga). It seemed so cool to me, even if I didn't exactly understand how it worked.
- vidarh 11mo agoYou could play music on the C64 by sampling the tape ports 1bit input and twiddling the sound chips volume accordingly. You could of course store the samples too, to play back later, but doing realtime sampling into 64KB of RAM didn't exactly let you store much... And a 1MHz CPU didn't let you do much compression if you wanted to keep up..
- cluckindan 11mo agoYou could in fact play four sample channels (with filters) plus two SID channels. However, the tech to do that was only discovered around 2008. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMioAPZcays https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMioAPZcays https://youtube.com/watch?v=D2lEVw7fsMY https://youtube.com/watch?v=D2lEVw7fsMY