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A comment on The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum (2017).

Re:The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclai... by rob74 on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:04AM (#26591628)
It's not only the cheapo Sinclair Spectrum that had to make do with this "1-bit" sound, the much more expensive IBM PC didn't have better sound hardware "out of the box" either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_speaker
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Re:The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclai... by amiga-workbench on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:15AM (#26591722)
I don't remember it being widely used for music, but some games did a pretty good job with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSvj3Hjxiic

The 8088MPH demo also sounds surprisingly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM

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Re:The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclai... by aricz on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:19AM (#26591765)
High quality PC-speaker music https://youtu.be/Xqjs1SPF9KY
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