Speaking of Tandy 3-voice sound, is there any hardware solution to acquire that on a regular PC?
Tandy released a board for developers, but not for the general public. IBM released the PS/1 Audio/Game Adapter, which only is intended to work on early PS/1 models, would require a custom-built adapter because it uses a pin connector and would require game software that detects a PS/1 to be altered.
Some boxed games came with a "LifeSize
Sound Enhancer" which connected to the
back of the PC and a stereo system (or
speakers) a […] Show full quote
Some boxed games came with a "LifeSize
Sound Enhancer" which connected to the
back of the PC and a stereo system (or
speakers) allows you to hear digitized
speech without a Sound card!
I don't have permission to distribute the full source (yet), but here is a snippet of the DIGPAK source that lists the entire set of soundcards/sound card families supported by the DIGPAK series of drivers by John Ratcliff:
1IDENTIFIER: 2;; =============[*][ 1 2 3 ] 3;; =============[*][1234567890123456789012345678901234567890] 4IF DIG_MASTER 5 db "MediaMaster or compatible",0,13,10 6ENDIF 7IF DIG_ADLIB 8 db "Adlib or compatible",0,13,10 9ENDIF 10IF DIG_CVXSND 11IF LIFESIZE 12 db "Life Size Enhancer",0,13,10 13ELSE 14IF NOSOUND 15 db "No digital sound card",0,13,10 16ELSE 17 db "Covox Speech Thing",0,13,10 18ENDIF 19ENDIF 20ENDIF 21IF DIG_VMSND 22 db "Covox Voice Master & Sound Master II",0,13,10 23ENDIF 24IF DIG_SMSND 25 db "Covox Sound Master I",0,13,10 26ENDIF 27IF DIG_IBMSND 28 db "IBM Internal Speaker, Foreground",0,13,10 29ENDIF 30IF DIG_DIGISP 31 db "Digispeech DS201 Speech Adaptor",0,13,10 32ENDIF 33IF DIG_TANEXTX 34 db "Tandy TX/EX/HX/SX & PCjr",0,13,10 35ENDIF 36IF DIG_TANSLTL 37 db "Tandy SL/TL & Sensation",0,13,10 38ENDIF 39IF DIG_SBLASTER 40IF SBPRO 41 db "Sound Blaster Pro",0,13,10 42ELSE 43IF STFX 44 db "ATI Stereo FX",0,13,10 45ELSE 46IF SBCLONE 47 db "SoundBlaster CLONE",0,13,10 48ELSE 49 db "SoundBlaster, Creative Labs",0,13,10 50ENDIF 51ENDIF 52ENDIF 53ENDIF 54IF DIG_SOURCE 55 db "Sound Source, Walt Disney",0,13,10 56ENDIF 57IF DIG_ECHOII 58 db "Echo II, Street Electronics",0,13,10 59ENDIF 60IF DIG_LANTSND
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61 db "Lantastic Voice Adaptor",0,13,10 62ENDIF 63IF DIG_IBMBAK 64 db "IBM Internal Speaker background",0,13,10 65ENDIF 66IF DIG_IBM1BIT 67 db "IBM Internal Speaker, 1 bit",0,13,10 68ENDIF 69IF DIG_PAUDIO 70IF PAS16 71 db "ProAudio Spectrum 16",0,13,10 72ELSE 73IF DIG_VBEAI 74 db "VESA Wave Driver",0,13,10 75ELSE 76 db "ProAudio Spectrum 8",0,13,10 77ENDIF 78ENDIF 79ENDIF 80IF DIG_BIGMOUTH 81 db "BigMouth, Talking Technolgoies",0,13,10 82ENDIF 83IF DIG_ADLIBG 84IF SENSATION 85 db "Tandy Sensation",0,13,10 86ELSE 87 db "Adlib Gold",0,13,10 88ENDIF 89ENDIF 90IF DIG_T2500 91 db "Tandy 2500 XL",0,13,10 92ENDIF 93IF DIG_ARIA 94 db "Aria, Sierra Semiconductor",0,13,10 95ENDIF
KAWAI CCP-014 (product name unknown)
GoldStar SoundTrack (The rarest AFAIK, even rarer than the KAWAI! There are no images of this soundcard other than the GoldStar branded Gallant soundcards, but it seems to use the GM82C650 chipset. Existence is known in Procyon Pro (MIDI sequencer)'s readme file)
Could have been region specificity in it's distrubution, like there's thousands in Korea and surrounding parts of Asia, they just didn't come to North America or Europe.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
