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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by Kurtz79 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:19AM (#50496088)
Not graphics, but even the PC speaker intro had some significant effort put into it, considering how limited it was as a sound source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOL4q5tDDQ

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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by IgorPartola on Saturday November 14, 2026 @10:27AM (#50497782)
Hearing the Monkey Island theme played how it would have been on a high end sound card is crazy. PC speakers did their best but it was composed as a damn symphony.

https://youtu.be/a324ykKV-7Y?is=Dn0qcERhEasBjloQ

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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by usrusr on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:02AM (#50498081)
Having grown up gaming on PC speaker I only knew the wavetable MIDI miracles from hearsay. Now any time I touch some DOSbox retro memory I'm nothing but disappointed becausr those MIDI tunes? They are just that, tinny voyages through the general MIDI instrument set where well made PC speaker programming can have awesome roughness.
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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by toast0 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:29PM (#50498868)
You should be able to force pc speaker only if you go through the config.
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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by smolder on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:59PM (#50499747)
Many MIDI things sound better on old hardware than they via modern reproduction. FM chips were very different from wavetable, and there's quite a lot of variation besides. It's no wonder some music sounds goofy, now --it was written with a very different palette of sounds.
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