PC Speaker SFX

Matthias · Post by **Matthias** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:55 pm

I remember back in the old days playing Doom on a 386, Doom originally had the option of playing sounds through the PC speaker, back when sound cards were still something of a luxury. I look back on those primitive sound effects with some fondness.

Is there any way to reenable those PC speaker sound effects in ZDoom?

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:10 pm

No but fraggle (chocolate doom) is finding a way to

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:13 pm

As far as I'm aware, none of the active ports support PC Speaker sound.
Chocolate-Doom is the only one which shows any sign of supporting it.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:00 am

The format has only been fully reverse-engineered recently. I'd give the ports that are intrested in it time to implement it.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:48 pm

Fraggle sort of has it working

Though it does not work well in Windows (stupid scheduler)

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:14 pm

jallamann · Post by **jallamann** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:03 pm

Post by **Kirby** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:48 am

Haha, sounds like Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Post by **Xaser** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:17 am

Why do I find this so awesome? Hehe, I love the old-style PC Speaker effects for some reason. Haha, I'm somewhat interested in Chocolate Doom now, thanks to this. Woohoo, gimmicks!

Mannequin · Post by **Mannequin** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:13 pm

That's how I used to play Doom v1.2 (?) on the 386 at work. No sound card, that came later. I used to go to work on the weekends just to play that.

-M.

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:22 pm

Mannequin wrote:That's how I used to play Doom v1.2 (?) on the 386 at work. No sound card, that came later. I used to go to work on the weekends just to play that.

Similar but different to my experience. I had a sound card at home but went to work at the weekends to take advantage of the ipx network and the brave new world that was deathmatching - but had to put up with the bleeps and bloops of speaker sounds.