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Re:DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music by justsomehnguy on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:58PM (#46130152)
> The PC speaker sound effects are bad enough (which is to say "as good as they can be, but still bad") and sound "cheap"

They are lifted as is from Shadow Knights.

> which is to say "as good as they can be, but still bad"

They could be done better or even way better, it's just that wasn't an important target in any way. Especially considering the performance target of 486DX+ whicih wasn't not a cheap machine in any way in 1993.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1952/shadow-knights/

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Re:DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music by jasongill on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:42AM (#46133831)
The PC speaker sounds used by Doom aren't so much lifted from Shadow Knights as they are shared between a lot of the early id Software games - the sounds in Doom were also used in Keen, Wolf3D, Shadow Knights, etc. A lot of their early Softbank games used all the same sound palette because they had to crank out new games so quickly
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