CAMBOD.MOD played through PC Speaker

Who needs a Sound Blaster card!? The ordinary PC speaker can have surprisingly good quality when you do it right. Here is the infamous Amiga music module "CAMBOD.MOD" played by IPlay for DOS through the PC speaker output. Recorded via composite video capture from a real PC, not a "DOS Box" emulator.

The music is based on the 1981 Kim Wilde song "Cambodia".

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Entertainment

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• yt:stretch=4:3
• yt:crop=16:9
• lq5
• cambod
• cambod.mod
• amiga
• module
• music
• digital
• audio
• pc
• speaker
• iplay
• dos
• sound
• blaster
• mod

[JeremyPassarelli]

Were do I get the program from? Does it play mp3 and AU files?

[vwestlife]

@JeremyPassarelli Just look up "Inertia Player". It does not play MP3 or AU files.

[AndreR241]

You have an idea how I can DosBox make using my "real" PC speaker instead of the emulation?

[vwestlife]

@AndreR241 Sorry, I don't use emulators, so I can't help you there.

[AndreR241]

@vwestlife Oh, that was the actual PC speaker beeping?

[vwestlife]

@AndreR241 Yes. I used a Compaq laptop and captured the audio from its line-out jack. That way the quality is much better than holding a microphone up to the little built-in speaker, but either way it is the PC speaker circuitry producing the audio.

[Lachlant1984]

I wonder how this would sound on newer motherboards which have the little piezoelectric beepers that are usually very quiet and sound very much like cheap electronic handheld games from the 80's. Those 'PC speakers' aren't much good at all really.

[Robloxian182]

This is not the pc speaker that i was expecting......but it's still good!

[BansheeFriend]

@AndreR241 I believe VMWare Workstation can send calls to pc speaker.

[ratix98]

pinball fantasies allowed the music and sfx be played through the pc speaker surprisingly well

[SiD3WiNDR]

@Samoutuomas What 1337Shockwav3 is saying is that basically the CPU is now doing what the DAC in your soundcard, changing the audio data into speaker pulses... I first had this experience with a cracktro, don't remember what it was for, but my jaw fell to the ground. Afterwards indeed Inertia Player could do this - I think Impulse Tracker as well... but it does indeed take a lot of CPU.

Inertia player rocked btw, nice visualisation as well :)

[Samoutuomas]

@1337Shockwav3 Actually, I have to disagree here (or maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you mean)? It's the "beeper-speaker" that's making these sounds on this video. It can only produce a single beep at a time, at different hertzes (300-10000 range or something) and with different lenghts. That has never changed in PC's.. Even modern ones have one, unless it's left out on purpose. I think it's the same beep you hear when you turn your computer on. So this is quite an accomplishment.

[1337Shockwav3]

The bottleneck with outputting stuff on the PC Speaker is well ... the speaker and the CPU :P Otherwise the software is pretty much doing what your soundcard usually would do ;)

Writing that, I just played back by first MP3 using a covox :)

[od090]

The back side of that jackplug can be a simple DAC on a pc speaker wire? A kind of COVOX i presume. :-)