crazii / SBEMU

legacy sound blaster emulation for DOS
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[suggestion] using the pcspeaker as an audio output #142

Open MFDGaming opened 1 month ago

MFDGaming commented 1 month ago

It would be cool if it was possible to playback the audio from the pcspeaker, it could be useful so that audio playback is possible even without a soundcard or a supported one

volkertb commented 1 month ago

Andrew Zabolotny's Virtual Sound Blaster, which you could consider a spiritual ancestor to SBEMU, had support for this.

The major downsides of playing back PCM sound through a PC's internal speaker:

I get the appeal: PC speaker output would work in a pinch on most PCs, without requiring any other hardware.

But if you think about it further:

I wouldn't outright say no to this feature request, but I wouldn't prioritize it either. Even LPT DAC (Covox) support would be more interesting to get done first, IMO.

Pull Requests are always welcome, though. :slightly_smiling_face: