birdrun
Level 22 Chipist
 
chip battle art
22nd/31

 
want 
34th Σ4.681

 
theme 
39th Σ4.997

 
composition 
46th Σ4.525

 
usaability 
52nd Σ4.126

 
art in pants 
46th Σ4.514

 
PC SPEAKER
 
  45th/61   Σ22.843   Oct 29th 2022 9:18am
 
 
Welcome to the most restricted format. It's a single channel of square wave beepy goodness. It has exactly two volume levels: Silent, and ear piercingly loud. It's controlled by a basic timer chip, so you can't even bit-bang it for PWM or PCM shenanigans (without doing some low level hardware hackery).

On the upside, the timer is quite a long one, so you can hit pretty much the entire audible range. And yeah, that's about the only upside I can think of.

The sheer flexibility and unpredictability of PC setups ensured that people were still porting their tunes into this archaic format well into the 90s. Let's see what you can make of it.

- beepmind
- beepfeel
- beeptech
- beepheart
- beep in pants

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162489
Level 31 Chipist
kleeder
 
 
 
post #162489 :: 2022.10.29 9:19am
sounds like a cute and easy battle. i approve
 
 
162509
Level 22 Chipist
3-UP
 
 
 
post #162509 :: 2022.10.29 2:13pm
ah dang, I was thinking about a similarly themed beeper battle

Would be down for this, even on a PC speaker, I've seen some crazy stuff made for it
 
 
162518
Level 21 Mixist
NardInYourYard
 
 
 
post #162518 :: 2022.10.29 4:41pm
Format?
 
 
162675
Level 6 Playa
a-tiny-pony
 
 
post #162675 :: 2022.11.01 5:45pm
i guess would have to be an x86 executable, to run on either hardware or emulator with pc speaker emulation
 
 
162683
Level 11 Playa
VirtualMan
 
 
post #162683 :: 2022.11.01 7:30pm
For those of you screeching your piezos on Loonucks, you're gonna want the original, setuid beep—not the fork. The latter is no good for music because of timing issues.
 
 
162897
Level 22 Chipist
birdrun
 
 
 
post #162897 :: 2022.11.08 6:02am
Not sure about format. Wildchip would probably do the job, of course. I know Furnacetracker can do PC speaker and there's a couple trackers specifically for it, but both options would restrict x86 cleverness etc.
 
 
162910
Level 20 Chipist
MS
 
 
 
post #162910 :: 2022.11.08 5:18pm
Qbasic .bas files could be a thing :P
 
 
162914
Level 22 Chipist
birdrun
 
 
 
post #162914 :: 2022.11.09 2:04am
  
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lol YEAS! QBASIC Battle! (Or even a QBasic play("") string)
 
 
163055
Level 13 Mixist
Googie
 
 
post #163055 :: 2022.11.14 1:10pm
  
  VirtualMan liēkd this
I always wondered why PC speaker wasn't a format yet. I'd love to see this as a battle.
 
 
163206
Level 25 Grafxicist
big lumby
 
 
 
post #163206 :: 2022.11.19 6:24pm
i would say fsound technically but that's more a music engine for the pc speaker, not the pc speaker itself
 
 
163313
Level 21 Mixist
NardInYourYard
 
 
 
post #163313 :: 2022.11.21 2:01pm
id be down for wildchip
 
 
163630
Level 28 Chipist
gotoandplay
 
 
 
post #163630 :: 2022.12.01 9:01am
would be nice test for puke's radio volume figurey outey thing
 
 

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