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@Nostalgianerd

7 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed.

@uranium5694

7 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia Nerd Thanks!

@d2factotum

7 жыл бұрын

My first PC in 1993 had only the PC speaker, but there was some pretty cool sounds anyway--I remember the game "Legend" doing a particularly good job of the title music? Of course, once I bought an 8-bit Soundblaster off a mate at work and installed it, I was amazed at the difference!

@10upstudios

7 жыл бұрын

b...but i was first :(

@djbassaus

7 жыл бұрын

Encore1234567890 My first was a Sprint PC also that I bought second hand off an old lady for about $200

When you tried to play games at 1am and it came through the PC Speaker at full blast

@Architector_4

7 жыл бұрын

true.

@Nostalgianerd

7 жыл бұрын

Strip poker.

@antdude

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no audio volume. :(

@SendyTheEndless

7 жыл бұрын

fuckin' *BEEEEEEEEP!!!*

@ProjectGeek1

7 жыл бұрын

Tank Wars, so many noises

I'll never forget, during highschool I was the the only one with a sound card. No matter how hard I tried to explain these games actually have music and even voices, my friends just wouldn't believe it, and got sick of me raving about it. They said things like "a sound blaster just makes your PC speaker louder" without ever actually having heard it. One day my friend and his dad came over to copy Dune 2 for me, and his dad was stunned to hear voices during the opening sequence. I just thought it was very ignorant for them to have owned this game for so long and missed out on half of the experience.

@utrak

7 жыл бұрын

Haha yes, I remember that kind of stuff. When I got a sound blaster, I hooked it up to a hifi stereo amp, the jump from pc speaker was shocking. Then my friend got a sound card too, and got these TINY little speakers for it, basically external pc speakers. I always had one eyebrow raised waaay up when we played on his pc, lol. Your speakers are shite mate :/

@Domarius64

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! My parents bought our computer, and my Dad had an expensive hi fi system, and was adamant that my uncle set up the computer next to it so it could take advantage of it. It was off to one side, but man, those games sounded so good. Even the FM music. Even though the FM chip is considered to be kinda weak sounding, it actually had bass to it on those speakers.

@tohopes

7 жыл бұрын

"came over to copy Dune 2 for me" lol those were the days

@utrak

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, amazing what could fit on a couple 3.5" disks. Mucking around in dos, fine tuning config.sys and autoexec.bat for specific games, good times. Cranking up the sound blaster volume to drown out the jet turbine wail of the hard drive

@Domarius64

7 жыл бұрын

Yes I kind of just recalled the experience without thinking about the fact that we were pirating. I guess when you're a kid with no money that's what you do. I know pirating is easier these days - but I gave that up years and years ago, soley because of Steam's price point and convenience, and the assurance that I'm getting the best quality version of the game, always up to date. That and I can afford to give the devs their money so they can go on to make other games. But you're right, "those were the days" - pirating back then meant some sort of social interaction, I don't remember just swapping a disk at school, it was always done during a visit to someone's house. And there were fewer games then too, so there was always a sense of awe with trying out this "new game" and sharing the experience together. Probably half the reason we remember them so fondly. That and they were awesome, heheh.

The worst is going from a sound card back to the PC speaker. When I was a kid I got my dad's old 486 when he bought a new Pentium PC. One day I tried to connect a tape player's output to the line-in of the sound card (Soundblaster 16, I think) so I could record some WAVs of music clips and sound effects. Long story short, I blew out the sound card because I accidentally had the tape player's volume set too high. Downgrading from playing games with full music and sound to just the beep-beep-boop of the PC speaker was the saddest day of my life. I could never bring myself to tell dad what I did to the sound card and just told him it stopped working.

@cacomeat7385

7 жыл бұрын

Adam Ohm for some reason this made me laugh when reading it, even though it sucks that happened.

@XENON2028

Жыл бұрын

sad

@the2323guy

Жыл бұрын

how

The first time I actually heard sounds from my PC Speaker was when I fired up Star Control 2. It was like some sort of magic. My friends thought I was fooling them around until they tried it home for themselves. I also remember an adventure game called Amazon Queen or something which had actual sounds and understandable speech coming out of a PC speaker. Ah, good old times when you could actually be amazed by leaps in technology.

I love the sounds of PC speaker, it's the sound of my youth!

@clemgon1

7 жыл бұрын

Get a Mac For Digtal Sound Beep in to ur ear

@doramilitiakatiemelody1875

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@valterns

3 жыл бұрын

PC Squeaker

@zsombor_99

Жыл бұрын

Rather a "PC squeaker", dude. 😁(that tiny little capsule, you know)

@Antarath

Жыл бұрын

It was OK until I got F-117A Stealth Fighter and Ski or Die. Jesus ##!"#! Christ that was painful. The cockpit sound in F-117a was nasty. This was an IBM I got in 88 or 89. No colors.. everything was green and only DOS.

Ahh, Passport.MID! I would recognize that tune anywhere.

@summerlaverdure

7 жыл бұрын

YESSSS its so chill and amazing

@summerlaverdure

7 жыл бұрын

***** it's both actually

@matani2001

7 жыл бұрын

0:10 - There's Passport.MID

@taranbasi1457

7 жыл бұрын

Matan Inbar You look a bit like Lon Seidman

@tohopes

7 жыл бұрын

I can't relate to people who obsess over passport.mid. I only had (or remember having) canyon.mid on my computer back in the day. I secretly think that all these passport.mid people live in an alternate dimension that is bridged to by KZread.

I remember that driver. What a revelation it was being able to play wavs on it! The one I had you could select whether to enable to disable interrupts, so you could get much better quality out of it but the computer would be frozen while it was playing. Wasn't actually that great. Sounds like yours had the same problem mine had though - there's a pitch slider in the control panel that for some reason is a notch too fast. Turning it down a notch or two made things sound more correct.

Pinball Fantasies had really good sound from the PC-speaker, with both MOD music and sound effects. It worked best on old computers with a "real" speaker.

@CmonSoundz

7 жыл бұрын

I just wrote the same thing ;-)

@radixcl

7 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I remember myself playing pinball fantasies on my ibm ps/2 386 and got totally amazed with the mod sound coming out from my pc speaker. I also remember that another world came with a .mod file which AFAIK it was never used in the game...

@drunkrdm

7 жыл бұрын

@radixcl i still have it, and it used all of the mod files. you're probably " adrenaline" the 2nd menu theme if you play a table and go back to the main menu. heh i still listen to the music, loved that game. XD

@matthewday7565

7 жыл бұрын

That was the one I was thinking of, best PC speaker sound of anything, though it helped if the speaker was actually mounted with the case providing a baffle

@dan_loup

7 жыл бұрын

There was this visual player software for the DOS that also did this job.

I remember unhooking the speaker, and running the two wires out the back of the computer. I then ran the sound into a 30 watt amp I made using an electronics kit. I then drove a BIG 5 inch speaker I got from Radio shack. Sounded a lot better, but still had that PC speaker sound LOL.

@zsombor_99

Жыл бұрын

I can imagine everyone could hear your beep-boop everywhere in your entire house! 😁

@Alcochaser

Жыл бұрын

@@zsombor_99 somewhat, but there were some Mod Tracker programs that would play fairly decent sound out of the PC speaker.

Back in the days when people dissed gaming as immature and looked down to C64s and Amigas. But then they shelled out tons of money for a graphics-, sound- and joystickcard only to game to subpar standards compared to the C64 and Amiga. :D

Wolfenstein 3D can play digitized sound through the PC speaker. Missed opportunity. But it does require a CFG Hex edit, so i dont blame you

@1337Shockwav3

7 жыл бұрын

Need more details.

@DookNookim

6 жыл бұрын

More details: forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=38860

2:16 I'm impressed the developers managed to get voice through the PC Speaker.

Back in the 80's and early 90's most IBM compatibles didn't have a sound card. Meanwhile I was rocking out to the glorious sound of Paula on my much superior Amiga :)

@eng3d

6 жыл бұрын

But we had lotus 123

@daishi5571

4 жыл бұрын

@@eng3d Which ran in emulation on an Amiga. :-D Edit spelling mistake.

Then there were us Amiga users rocking stereo sound and sampled audio without having to buy a sound card that cost as much as the computer itself.

@BlazeRhodon

7 жыл бұрын

True. Most PC sound cards did not even use their full potential in video games, I mean sampled sound (PCM) for music.

@DuckAlertBeats

7 жыл бұрын

JimmiG84 Annoyingly hard-separated stereo channels though! Used to make beats on Amigas, always had to convert to mono :)

@KuraIthys

7 жыл бұрын

DuckAlert Beats Yes, that was a seriously weird design decision. There's a lot of those with sound hardware though. Like the snes. Who puts sample based synthesis hardware on a system with very limited DMA abilities, only 64 kilobytes of Audio RAM (and the audio hardware cannot independently read from storage), and an expensive ROM storage medium where even having 3 megabytes of storage is a huge luxury!?

@SomeOrangeCat

7 жыл бұрын

Things worked out for us PC owners become the early 90s though.

@joojoojeejee6058

7 жыл бұрын

PC sound cards didn't cost "as much as the computer itself". They were pretty affortable in the early 1990s. In the 1980s nobody really cared, because PCs were mainly business machines. Amiga had pretty good audio for its time, but the whole platform was aging fast at the turn of the decade and audio capabilities were also pretty limiting at that point.

I remember when I discovered a music player program which did 4-note harmony on the PC speaker. It actually did a pretty decent job, so long as the PC speaker wasn't utterly crap (which most weren't, surprisingly). Too bad it was DOS only.

My earliest memories involve computers with sound cards on them, but this aspect of vintage computing is still endlessly fascinating to me.

I was one of those smug Amiga users back then, with my fancy 8-bit stereo sound. That worked out well :)

@SomeOrangeCat

7 жыл бұрын

I was firmly in the "HA! Whose the smug one NOW?" camp, when games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom came out. Suddenly my Amiga and Genesis owning friends were like "...Fuck!"

@Foebane72

6 жыл бұрын

The PC was just lucky with games like Doom (I hated Wolf3D, it was CRAP) and Commodore going bust, and Commodore's terrible business decisions right up until the end. In an alternative universe, the Amiga PWNED the PC for FAR LONGER, and companies like Id Software took full advantage of the Amiga's superiority. What's more, in this alternative universe, the Amiga rescued the games industry in the US rather than the shitty NES, and the PC remained a dull business machine until the present day! VIVA AMIGA!

@Alianger

5 жыл бұрын

@@Foebane72 Hello from the real universe

@gabrielirlanda

2 жыл бұрын

AMIGA 500 and 1200 user here too, I remember I was terrified of how the PC was more and more efficient every year. Then my world collapsed when I ended up buying my first Pentium 586, I felt such a traitor. 😥

The Raspberry Pi 3 still produces noise on the audio output when you move the mouse, even with a USB sound card. Fuck that thing.

@Nostalgianerd

7 жыл бұрын

Almost 30 years on. Damn.

@Spudcore

7 жыл бұрын

Srsly? Psh, what a load of piss.

@magnum333

7 жыл бұрын

Have you tried using a good sound card?

@ZLau13

7 жыл бұрын

1. That is to be expected for the price point. Be glad it even has onboard audio. 2. Your USB DAC must suck because mine does perfect job on any USB host, including stuff like cheap smartphones and the Orange Pi Zero which is a ~$10 single board computer 3. If it's not the DAC, it might have been your power supply. If you're running a Pi 3 must have at least a proper 5V 2.5A supply, not a crappy chinese tablet charger.

@SianaGearz

7 жыл бұрын

You need a better made USB sound card. When you get cheap ones, they're lacking input filtering and produce this kind of activity induced noise on numerous computers, in varying amount. You can fix it up, get a ferrite bead on +5V on the way to soundchip and some capacitance between +5V and ground after the ferrite. I can't really fault the Pi, it's cheap, it's very cramped, but it's within USB spec. Well, at least as long as the power supply feeding it has ripple within USB spec under Pi's load.

Ah the memories. Coming from the Amiga I was shocked that my awesome 386dx Amstrad couldn't play sound anywhere near as good as the a500. The Amstrad speaker wasn't that bad and even had a volume control which was rare, but oh the day, when on a Christmas shopping trip at lakeside thurock, I spent my birthday money on a creative labs SB16 pro.

Although I grew up on Sound Blaster, the PC speaker gives some old school games a certain charm... like an old arcade machine.

great video man. all your stuff is so informative man dont ever stop this!

@Nostalgia Nerd Excellent video, very educational has always ;) Miss those good old times of bleeps and bloops :D

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade Theme on the PC speaker is one of my first gaming memories :)

Always a pleasure dude :) Thanks for this very interesting!

I remember playing the axelf.mod file thru the pc speaker and playing mean street via realsound :) Great video and looking forward for more on pc sound !

Great video. It's important to look back at where we came from to truly enjoy and appreciate where we are now.

Try playing tracker music with PC speaker. I remember old Scream Tracker stm modules played pretty decently with its player program. 4 glorious digital channels on 12 MHz 286...

Reminds me of the first time I played Sim City 2000. It only had a PC Speaker at the time, and the game only used it for music... or one track of a MIDI as you said. You'd sometimes get some semi-listenable tracks, or just the odd beep every now and then (which I thought were cars in traffic.). It was mind blowing to move up to a soundblaster and hear how everything was supposed to sound!

Great channel, great video! I remember the pesky buzzer on the RM Nimbus computers at school.

You have great videos on your channel, very nice presentation, editing, audio quality. You deserve more views!

Very interesting - Looking forward to the vid on the sound cards

Haha Canyon.mid. Hearing that again after all these years feels so odd!

I've built Covox - extremely simple DAC running over parallel port. You installed a driver which emulated SoundBlaster. It was awesome. some games even supported it directly, some as Disney Sound Source device.

I used to play Wolfenstein 3D on an internal speaker. When I finally got a PC with a sound card I was completely blown away at the music and sound effects. It was like I was playing the game for the first time again.

wow! I got some serious nostalgic flashbacks. Cool video!

I remember my neighbour from upstairs used to bang on the heating/piping because my PC speaker when playing Wolfenstein used to drive him mad :)

Where I started. Great video. Thank you!

@Nostalgianerd

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Brandon thanks!.. and you are most welcome!

What a wonderful channel. Sometimes some informations are not exact, but this is a great channel indeed.

Don't know how, but this one the only ep I haven't seen in your channel lol, how did this passed me for more than a year is just beyond my comprehension

AAhhhh man, Duke Nukem with PC speaker takes me back Been a loooonnnggg time since I've seen the sound recorder, too

Now that you have done PC Speaker, you MUST do Covox Speech Thing. This is what we have used over in Soviet Union as an upgrade over PC Speaker, because you can easily build one yourself, and in the simplest case, you don't even need any active components, though those could make it better. Related is Disney Sound Source, which has been reverse engineered and can be rebuilt, also a handful of parts. Maybe i can help with the hardware.

@Cooe.

6 жыл бұрын

LGR's covered them. Also the Covox killed your CPU speed even worse than pushing waveform audio over the PC speaker sad to say, but yes they were definitely crazy simple & cheap.

I like your videos, they make me remember the good times.

My friend used to have a Packard Bell computer and he was jelous of the sound on my Tandy 1000 RLS. The sound of nuking your neighbor in Civilization 1 will be with me forever.

@Nostalgia Nerd Do you know Pinball Illusions or Fantasies (think they are original Amiga Games), but they have fast and nice gameplay along with very good emulated PC Speaker Sound. Loved this when I finally got Sound on my PC Notebook!

When I had my old IBM 300GL with Windows 95, I rigged the internal speaker to the internal onboard audio pins on the motherboard while hot-wiring the CD ROM internal audio cable also on the same pins! Thankyou Nerd for a blast from the past!😃❤️

Ah this takes me back

thanks for this video it was very helpful and informative

When I heard my first mp3s without a sound card, there was a DOS player that played well and I also replaced the internal speaker with a larger speaker salvaged from an old tv set... Good God, it felt and sounded awesome, back then... And I think I had to convert the mp3 to pcm before playback.... not sure. Perhaps, as it was a 66 or 100mhz pentium.

Wow I never had any idea about this. I guess i got spoiled since every pc I had already had some form of sound card built in. Although im not sure whats in my 2gs but the sound is pretty decent. Also thank you for the high pitch sound warning. You saved my ears.

Me he cagado de la risa con éste video. Buenísimo!!! Casi lloro cuando escuché el MIDI que traía el Windows =')

I was 3 years old in early 1994, and I owned a 486 Multimedia PC with DOS, and I played Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit, Mystic Towers, Commander Keen 4, Math Blaster, and many other games with full stereo sound and VGA. I never used the PC speaker. I wasn't in school yet, so I could play games all day every day. You have no idea how much I miss those carefree times of being 3 and 4. Now I'm turning 27. :(

Yeah, I perfectly recall those years. I jumped from my beautifuly sounding Amiga 500 to a screechy IBM PS/1 486DX2 without a sound card. I was obliged to do that change, due to my academic choices in early 90s! I got am adlib soundcard a year later, or so. I also recall that speaker driver :) Awesome video, Pete! Thanks for the memories! :)

@Nostalgianerd

7 жыл бұрын

Adlib was a revelation after PC Speaker

I had to rewatch that bit in the middle because I was so distracted by CLOUDS.MID in the background... now THAT took me back to my youth...

I well remember playing the golf game on my 286 in '89 or so that had "RealSound" integrated. It was absolutely astonishing for the time. Of course, shortly thereafter I acquired a SoundBlaster and never looked back.

I remember exactly the same thing, getting so excited when I got a copy of the sound driver disk for Win 3.1 for my 386SX

Those beeps bring back so many good memories!

That speaker driver was handy for "System sounds". You could at least hear what Windows was trying to tell you, with this "multimedia experience" they were trying to present. It might have actually sounded fairly good, if one replaced their speaker with one capable of producing more sounds, or if they used a mono amplified speaker. There was also a built-in speaker driver, that games like Sierra games used. It sounded like beeps, and could only play one note at a time. However, it had a programmable buffer. It could loop music in the background, unless something locked up the system.

Wow, the first Duke Nukem and Hocus Pocus, I've played those so much! Those 2, catacomb abyss and the commander Keen series, Thanks for another great video and the memories :)

Never knew there were so much stuff before the soundcards as we know them, very informative indeed

I remember setting up the PC speaker driver... used to use the Trumpton fire brigade roll call to get the level as good as possible without mashing it. The louder and beefier the original beep was, the better - modded one system with some cardboard baffles added to the speaker frame to get a lot more punch. Inertia Player for DOS could deliver fantastic results if the speaker was good - ideally mounted to the case itself so the case acted as the baffle, as it was on my first PC

The first game I heard via a soundblaster was Mechwarrior 2. It made quite a difference to the sound track.

OMG, Doom PC speaker sounds. That's my childhood (yeah, I was 9- years old that played Doom and I turned out OK).

Which Amiga Format coverdisk did you overwrite for that Speaker Driver? I spotted the logo on the left side showing through beneath the label. Naughty naughty! Actually I reformatted a lot of the boring utilities disks myself, which was annoying when they had a part of the other disk compressed on there and I didn't realise it.

Seeing wolfenstein with the PC speaker sounds at the end jolted my memories, and I realized that I never played that game with a soundcard.

Never knew M$ had a driver package; but I do remember finding a driver back in the day that worked really well. Messing with config/autoexec to load it into himem etc. to work with DOS games. Reminds me of having a quality mouse driver as well to load - not all drivers were created equal. Did you ever play with 0(zero)CD emulators and the like on DOS back in the day Nostalgia Nerd?

I love these videos! To think now we have PCs connected to surround sound receivers through HDMI cables. Mine runs off of my GTX 1070ti, but even on board sound chips can run 7.1 sound.

nice work guy...

No Pinball Fantasies? That was the pinnacle of PC Speaker sound, back in the day. I've never heard a better sounding PC Speaker game!

And yes, please do a video on PC sound cards of old because I think they're fascinating devices.

I had, and still have, those same Mercury speakers! They still work and they put out fairly impressive sound for their age too!

Hahaha! I loved seeing that shot of Echelon! I loved that game, though I played it on an IBM XT with an amber monochrome display. Great game.

Good vid Mr Nerd

@Nostalgianerd

7 жыл бұрын

Many thanks squire.

I had those speakers! They were actually pretty good as I recall and the little nob on the right one by the green light is the on off if you push it in

Love the space hulk, do more 40k stuff please!

Ever tried the original Star Control 2 for DOS? It's an amazing experience, it uses mod tracker format for the music (what the Amiga uses) Now i don't know if this works on all PC speakers, but it sounded awesome on my XT back in the day, which had one of those huge speakers inside.

I had no idea this 'speaker driver' existed. Though I remember the night before we'd buy my first Soundblaster 16, I was so excited I wasn't able to sleep.

Reminds me of the old 486 we used to have. The system had a Microsoft-branded Windows Sound System card in it, but since a lot of DOS games didn't support the card for sound effects and it didn't have an Adlib or Sound Blaster compatibility option, we often had music coming from the WSS card while the sound effects were coming from the PC Speaker. Fortunately, there were at least some games that supported the card, such as Warcraft II, Descent, and Command & Conquer, but other common games like Doom did not.

I had a command line program that would play the Lone Ranger theme on the PC speaker - using arpeggios to make the one-note-at-a-time sound like harmony. I was looking to see if anybody uploade that or anything similar to KZread. Wow the sound name cards in your video are a blast from the past. I remember Sierra games really pushing people to get sound cards.

Oh, god, Wolfenstein on PC speaker! That's quite a childhood memory but the nostalgia is stronger for when I finally got the compatible soundcard (that really didn't work with most titles) to work with it, hearing the gunshots instead of the bleep sounds for the first time was AMAZING. Though the Monkey Island theme is still catchy on PC speaker which is quite a feat.

holy fuck, congrats on 50K subs

i never thought about this but can we still use the pc speaker for audio output in windows 10? My first pc already had a multimedia kit (soundblaster 16 + 4x cdrom reader) so i'm not that nostalgic about it, but it would still be cool

You and LGR are the reason i still use youtube lol

6:57 Aye! Techmoan is 10$+ supporter!

I remember our second PC was an Escom 486-25 (the first was a 286) with no sound card and 4MB RAM. This eventually got upgraded to 16MB RAM and ran Doom like a beast (albeit slightly windowed) but we never had a sound card! We DID have a CD drive however, so we hooked the headphones socket on the CD drive itself to some speakers and I was blown away at the time. Still no sound effects bar PC speaker, but music in games like Exhumed!

Whoa those Doom PC speaker sounds brought back way more nostalgia than I was expecting.

@sirbattlecat

6 жыл бұрын

AntiPseudo yeah man same here. I still remember seeing doom on the screen for the first time and how excited I got.

One bit of trivia I could give you for the next video: you can still use OPL3 in modern Windows. If your sound card has it on board, that is. YMF724 or CMI8738 have them on the die itself, you just have to install a driver for it to enable the kernel to open up a port, route commands from 0x388 to another one (0x50 on CMI8738) by using inpout32 library and voila!

Man, I remember the Stunts soundtrack on the PC speaker. It was the sweetest thing ever.

Playing Doom for the first time with a dedicated sound card was some thing else. Felt like a different game.

I didn’t need to worry about any of this as I had an Amiga 500.

My first experience with sounds from a built in speaker was a TRS-80 model 4p. There was a game "Missile Attack" that had sounds and primitive synthetic voice that said the game name as part of the intro. Later I had a Tandy 1000 and I remember being amazed how good Heartlight PC sounded through the PC speaker on it.

I remember using these, I made a Parallel Port (printer) mono sound adapter and I got drivers, it was an awesome improvement, make a review of those!

What was that method called where through interleaving ~ maybe up to 4 tracks that multichannel audio in mono could be heard on a PC speaker including rudimentary voice and SFX? I first encountered it at school in primary playing one of the Carmen Sandeigo games back on their old caddy single speed cd-rom drives. The librarian hated our group as we came in at lunch 5 days a week and she had to change the CD whenever we wanted as they had only 2 caddy cartridges and one of them was tied up for some encyclopedia disc. It came to a head with LOOM vs Tex Murphy Mran Streets.

Just asking, does the speaker driver for windows 3.1 also work on windows 98 computers?

I remember installing a Soundblaster card into a friend's computer for the first time and it really made gaming so much better.

When my dad brought home our first 386, and I had "found" games for it, I was always so jealous of those sound options in the game setup menus. Then I went to a friend's house that had one of those Tandy PC Jr knockoffs with the "3-voice" audio. It sounded amazing in the intro to the Home Alone game. (But the EGA graphics sucked compared to VGA 256 color. ;-) ) When we finally got a Sound Blaster Pro, I sat there for hours trying 15 minutes of every game to see what it sounded like. Pure bliss. It's hard to imagine any development as exciting today as finally getting a sound card was back then.

I had bought during 90's a soundblaster 16bit ISA card. It offered great recording and excellent sound. It was much more expensive thought.

Your channel reminds me of how spoiled my brother and I were, we had a game blaster pretty early on

In the past i spend way too much time tweaking that Microsoft PC speaker sound driver for the best sound quality.

crazy :! I did not know about PC speaker Win 3.x driver :D is there an 9x or even NT compatible one ? :P