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- From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
- Message-ID: <n112at@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 12:11:10
- Lines: 38
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- > Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
- > From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
- > Message-ID: <exuptr.324.723919845@exu.ericsson.se>
- > Newsgroups:
- > comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- >
- > Oops, wrong again, honey. PC's can do sound through the built-in speaker.
- > Ok, quality is not better than a pocket radio, but you can definitely give
- > an impression beyond a 'beep'. I have a golf game that has applause and
- > announcers and ball-in-cup sounds that are pretty realistic. No, it's not
- > 8 bit sound, it resembles delta modulation or PWM more closely. But it's
- > a lot better than some of these digitized sound games that Radio Shack
- > sells.
-
- Yeah, I've been pretty impressed with the sounds that come out of my best
- freind's 286's speaker. It sounds lousy, but for such a simple sound
- system, its quite a feat. Its below the quality of a phone line with heavy
- static.. but its still impressive.
-
- > Anyway, if I want good sound, I'll buy multimedia. Can't beat that, can
- > you?
-
- Well, actualy, we can.
-
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > !!! H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S !!!
- >
- > - Patrick Taylor, Ericsson Network Systems
- > exuptr@exu.ericsson.se "Don't let the .se fool you"
- > exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org <SLOW!>
-
- -Dances With Coyotes - World's slowest programer-Given that God is infinate-
- -AKA Dances V2.0, Coyote, Critter, Magnet, Major-and that the universe is-
- -- Former Net-Lurker - YES, an AMIGA godammit! --also infinate, would you-
- --- Still limping along with AmigaOS 1.3 :( ---like a toasted tea cake?-
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.00
-