> Through more advanced coding techniques, it became possible later on to playback digital audio by using pulse width modulation. The first time I heard this was when playing Pinball Fantasies - I absolutely could not believe what I was hearing at the time.
Digitized PWM was well known. Nazis were shouting "Achtung!" on the Apple II before the IBM PC ever shipped.
> I'm not interested in similar computers that had built-in audio such as the PCjr and the Tandy
Gah, even worse. I mean, it's true, these cards weren't "cards", but this hardware (the TI SN76486) was the standard for game audio in the PC world until the Ad Lib shipped. This would be like writing a history of PC graphics and skipping VGA.
Digitized PWM was well known. Nazis were shouting "Achtung!" on the Apple II before the IBM PC ever shipped.
> I'm not interested in similar computers that had built-in audio such as the PCjr and the Tandy
Gah, even worse. I mean, it's true, these cards weren't "cards", but this hardware (the TI SN76486) was the standard for game audio in the PC world until the Ad Lib shipped. This would be like writing a history of PC graphics and skipping VGA.