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Posted February 07, 2014
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Kapaun: In the days before sound cards had been invented the games produced sound using the PC beeper. Nowadays very annoying and horrible. Does anyone know if those very old gog-games like Might and Magic 1 or the early Ultimas etc. still use the beeper? Or has it been eliminated from the code?
..Try the original Star Control 2 with pc beeper..
Posted February 07, 2014
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timppu: Ah, the good old times when you'd run a DOS game in the middle of the night, and then the whole neighborhood would hear the music: "BEE BOO BOO BEE BO BE BOO BOO BE BOO BO BE BOO,..." (that was the title tune from Leisure Suit Larry, by the way). And you reaching for the power button of the PC to turn the damn loud infernal machine off.

It was like some space age high-tech later when some sound cards offered an option to reconnect the beeper cable to your sound card, so that the sounds would come through your speakers instead (so that you could indeed apply also volume to them).
We had a volume button build on the pc itself to lower it.
Posted February 07, 2014
There were some games that made really impressive use of the PC beeper. I'm reminded in particular of Dungeon Master and Pinball Dreams, which had full sampled soundtracks that were equivalent to the Soundblaster versions.
Posted February 07, 2014
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lugum: We had a volume button build on the pc itself to lower it.
Wow, I never had such a PC (until PC speaker sounds could be channeled through the sound card with re-wiring). It was all out with the beeper sounds, volume apparently at max always.
Posted February 07, 2014
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lugum: We had a volume button build on the pc itself to lower it.
Past-me envies you.
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timppu: Wow, I never had such a PC (until PC speaker sounds could be channeled through the sound card with re-wiring). It was all out with the beeper sounds, volume apparently at max always.
Same in case of all old PCs my family ever had. The incredibly high volume was what made the PC speaker truly ass and made me hate it.
Post edited February 07, 2014 by F4LL0UT
Posted February 07, 2014
It didn't came with the original pc though, we had "some techie guy" do it i believe, it's been like 20 years ago now.
But yeah it was great, they were really loud. Larry was my first pc game so that tune is stuck in my head.
Oh and the lock and key it had whenever i was grounded it went locked, which was easily opened with a hairpin.
Post edited February 07, 2014 by lugum
Posted February 07, 2014
I still like the crappy PC speaker sounds :')
(prince of persia!)
Post edited February 07, 2014 by phaolo
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