Subj : Play audio from a serial port
To   : AKAcastor
From : Bob Worm
Date : Mon May 20 2024 09:23:39

  Re: Play audio from a serial port
  By: AKAcastor to Bob Worm on Sun May 19 2024 12:36:38

Hi, Chris.

 > Bob - wonderful video!  Great presentation and excellent demonstration of
 > what's coming out of the serial port and how it sounds.  Super well done.

Thanks for the kind words. As usual I wasn't really happy with it by the time I started cutting the clips together but I couldn't quite bring myself to re-film any of it :) I'm sure it will improve with practice.

 > The audio quality is shockingly good!  I know I would have been overjoyed to
 > have audio of this quality before I got a Soundblaster in the 90s.

Yeah, tell me about it. I remember those Windows 3.1 PC speaker sound drivers that would basically halt the PC until sound stopped playing, I'm not sure it even sounded as good as the serial port thing. It's kind of ironic that I suffered for so long without a sound card yet now good sound is available everywhere I'm back, voluntarily, messing around with scratchy low-fi :)

I have a USB parallel port kicking around somewhere, maybe I'll try one of those oldskool parallel to audio adaptors now that I actually have some veroboard to mount it on... then I just need to find some software that supports it. I can see how this is going to go...

Cheers,

BobW
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