For not well off geeks you could just solder a bunch of resistors together and get vastly better sound than from the crappy PC speaker and there were games that supported it and I wrote some software for it (which unfortunately is gone I think). I had a lot of just having this on the pc in the house.
"Not long after its introduction, Creative Labs introduced its competing Sound Blaster card. The Sound Blaster was fully compatible with AdLib's hardware, and it also implemented two key features absent from the AdLib: a PCM audio channel and a game port. With additional features and better marketing, the Sound Blaster quickly overshadowed AdLib as the de facto standard in PC gaming audio. AdLib's slow response, the AdLib Gold, did not sell well enough to sustain the company."
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Adlib support! At least someone else remembers it wasn't only Soundblaster.
All my friends had Soundblasters; I had a self soldered Covox. Fun times.
Whaaat?? Do tell more!
For not well off geeks you could just solder a bunch of resistors together and get vastly better sound than from the crappy PC speaker and there were games that supported it and I wrote some software for it (which unfortunately is gone I think). I had a lot of just having this on the pc in the house.
https://github.com/necroware/silly-sound-bastard
I am very close to emulating the Covox - I emulate the Disney Sound Source, which is just a Covox with a FIFO
But Soundblaster came with Adlib, so surely complete support for SB should mean Adlib support as well.. ?
Yeah and eventually Adlib was gone.
From Wikipedia,
"Not long after its introduction, Creative Labs introduced its competing Sound Blaster card. The Sound Blaster was fully compatible with AdLib's hardware, and it also implemented two key features absent from the AdLib: a PCM audio channel and a game port. With additional features and better marketing, the Sound Blaster quickly overshadowed AdLib as the de facto standard in PC gaming audio. AdLib's slow response, the AdLib Gold, did not sell well enough to sustain the company."
I haven't implemented the Soundblaster card yet, although it's quite high on my list of things to do.