Get ready for Mach 3! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yL-u7lsMxk
The intro music, sound effects and voices in the game were all digitized audio played through the PC speaker, without interrupting anything else. To bad the game's authors didn't put as much effort into the effects as they did the intro. The 'regular' method of using the PC speaker caused an interrupt which halted everything else in the system, which is why it was normally used only for a simple, short beep. Microsoft made a PC speaker audio driver for Windows 3.x but it followed the rules, everything halted while audio was being played. It wasn't until Windows 95 that Microsoft figured out how to do what DOS games had been doing for years with the PC speaker. The driver for Win 9x does not bring the system to a halt while digitized audio plays through the PC speaker. 'Course not many people ever experienced that since by 1995 a sound card or audio device built into the motherboard was pretty much standard equipment. (Yup, I had one Win 95a box without a sound card so I used the PC speaker driver.) --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
