On: The Horror of Cross-platform Audio Output

[spacemanmatt]

or breadboarding a DAC-to-parallel-port "sound card" because the piezo buzzer just didn't cut it

[ackalker → spacemanmatt]

Ah the Covox[1] craze, sweet memories.

BTW: I think you meant to say "parallel-port-to-DAC", where "DAC" all too often meant just a simple cobbled-together resistor ladder.

Who cares about HiFi when you can have actual sampled sounds instead of tinny beeps? :-)

[caf → ackalker]

It was also possible to play sampled sounds through the PC speaker using pulse-width modulation. Now that was a hack.