What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)

Re:What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010) by techrat on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:58AM (#8880199)

There was this one game I picked up off the shelf at Target wayyyyyyyy back in the day (likely around 1990-1992) that had printed on the box a selling point that you could hear music without a sound card. It used the pc speaker. And sounded horrendous.

Still can't remember what the name of the game was and had been trying to track it down the last few years to see if it was as bad as I remembered.

I just remember high color (S?)VGA rendered/scanned in graphics, a man who was visiting alien planets and battling monsters. My 386 at the time was too underpowered to make the game remotely playable.

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Re:What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010) by bentcorner on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:48PM (#8881369)

It likely used this technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound

I played "Mean Streets" back in the day and was blown away by the sound.

I later saved up enough allowance/birthday money to buy a Sound Blaster Pro - several hundred dollars for a card that is probably < $10 today. Christ.

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