playing a wav on a pc speaker O_o

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Fri May 28, 2004 5:38 pm

just out of curiosity could you play a wav on the pc speaker without too much distortion?

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Fri May 28, 2004 7:48 pm

no

though there were some funny drivers for that a long time ago

if you have a compaq deskpro or something similar, the soundcard is hooked up to the on board speaker with it's own volume control, gotta love that

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Fri May 28, 2004 7:51 pm

Which begs the questions.. Does anyone remember the program called "tran" that was text-to-voice in the PC speaker?

Good stuff!

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:10 pm

not even with the _beep command?
having the thought of the pc speaker doing such things is a intresting though

GPI · Post by **GPI** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:39 pm

Dreglor wrote:just out of curiosity could you play a wav on the pc speaker without too much distortion?

Why?

When a PC hasn't a soundcard, you should by a new PC, because your PC is very, very old.

PC-Speaker is for BIOS-Error-Messages.

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:10 pm

i was wondering, i didn't think i could use it for anything

TronDoc · Post by **TronDoc** » Sat May 29, 2004 2:21 am

Karbon wrote:Which begs the questions.. Does anyone remember the program called "tran" that was text-to-voice in the PC speaker?

Good stuff!

yes, I have it [tran] here somewhere, along with
the .wav speaker driver...
...both worked quite well.

Joe

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:33 am

the pc-speaker isnt for bios errors only. i remember an old danish made game, where even voice was coming trough the pc speaker. difficult to hear, though..

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Sun May 30, 2004 6:53 pm

there are motherboards that do boot up and say "Self-test Ok"
and the voice isn't to bad

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:15 pm

Quote:
just out of curiosity could you play a wav on the pc speaker without too much distortion?
You might get the old Microsoft Speaker Driver to work (and sound was fairly good for back then), but it is a 16bit solution and may not work anymore under newer Windows versions.

GPI · Post by **GPI** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:52 pm

thefool wrote:the pc-speaker isnt for bios errors only. i remember an old danish made game, where even voice was coming trough the pc speaker. difficult to hear, though..

Yes Old. Today PC-Speaker is for bios-errors. When you want sound, use a soundcard. All other is waste of time.

We live in the year 2004, not 1986.

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:13 pm

but what if were stuck in 1986

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:53 am

we just program us out of 1986. or make a soundcard

Nelligan · Post by **Nelligan** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:46 pm

It can be fun for some people to tinker on old tech things and I don't think they find it a waste of time or at least a fun one

Some drivers here : http://ulihansen.kicks-ass.net/speaker/index2.htm

Oh and I just remembered, Alone in the dark on my VGA 286's PC speaker was great!!

Amiga5k · Post by **Amiga5k** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:42 am

Hard to believe, but the original Apple 2 (I think) only allowed the speaker to make a quick click sound. If you wanted to make a note, you had to turn the click on and off at a certain rate (higher rates = higher notes, etc). And, believe it or not, some companies actually figured out how to create speech using this approach! (Luckily, a real sound card eventually made its way into the Apple line).

On this same note (pardon the pun), there was a program I remember from the Commodore 64 days that would tap the 1541's (floppy disk) drive head up against the head stop and actually play a song! Not good for the drive head, I'm sure, but still impressive.

It's amazing what programmers can do when given a challenge. Programmers of today have it W A A A A Y too easy in comparison (ultra cheap memory, high speed processors, high level languages and libraries that all but do it for you...). Back then, if you had 64k, 1mhz and a 6502\10 assembler you had it made.... This is why most of the classic games of all time were created during this period.

Just my $.02

Russell

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