Comment by POSSIBLE_FACT

Comment by POSSIBLE_FACT a day ago

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"The PC speaker could only play square waves, and had only one voice."

I am reminded of Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum, which let the PC speaker output something beyond just bleeps and bloops.

cardiffspaceman 19 hours ago

So Sony figured out something called a “1-bit DAC”. It’s something like dither, and so was the method of generating voice audio in Mean Streets.