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Re:Canyon.mid by POSSIBLE_FACT on Sunday June 15, 2025 @03:29PM (#44284434)
"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.

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Re:Canyon.mid by cardiffspaceman on Monday June 16, 2025 @12:51AM (#44286701)
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.
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