Subj : Play audio from a serial port
To   : Spectre
From : Bob Worm
Date : Thu May 23 2024 10:12:37

  Re: Play audio from a serial port
  By: Spectre to Bob Worm on Tue May 21 2024 01:51:00

Hi, Spec.

 > I don't know about anything modern, but there's the old ModPlay I think it
 > was 1.12 for DOS. It'll have both the resistor ladder and the DAC versions.
 > There were a few games that tried using it too, but I don't remember what
 > now.
 > https://esoom.com/mark/dev/modplay.html

Thanks for the link - that is definitely the *kind* of thing I remember playing with over at my friend's house... may even have been one of the versions of that exact software. How many of these projects could there be?

 > I used the modplay schematic and mounted it straight onto an Apple II bus..
 > worked just like a SAM speech card.

That's some solid confidence in your soldering skills :)

BobW
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