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Re:DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music by andrewf on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:23PM (#46129175)
Also all the sound stuff was outsourced! id hired Bobby Prince to make the music and licensed a playback library which seemed to have enough problems already with the supported sound cards. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DMX

So they'd have had to extract this feature from a vendor where the relationship is already breaking down, or ditch it all and start from scratch with a new vendor, or inhouse code.

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Re:DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music by antonvs on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:22AM (#46134191)
On top of that, the claim in the post seems to be based on the Linux Doom architecture, which has a separate sound service that didn’t exist in the original DOS version.

This is just someone cosplaying early 1990s development with the benefit of decades of subsequent OS and software design.

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