Subj : Play audio from a serial port
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu May 09 2024 12:50:47

  Re: Play audio from a serial port
  By: Spectre to Spectre on Fri May 10 2024 04:24 am

 Sp> The bit I forgot, is that these tend to be fairly CPU heavy, and you have
 Sp> to be able to hit the Parallel/Serial port pretty fast.  Making it
 Sp> difficult for the systems of the age to do anything else save drive these
 Sp> sound devices.

In the early 90s, I saw a sound driver for Windows 3.1 that used the PC speaker, so that WAV audio files & such could be enabled that way.  Although it worked, and was kinda cool for what it was, it slowed down the PC significantly while playing audio that way.  I imagine it was a similar issue.

Nightfox
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