• jaaake@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Back in my day, that used to be the only way a computer could produce sound. Later on you could purchase a specialized sound card that would take up a slot in your motherboard.

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      6 months ago

      I thought I was the cool kid when I got my SoundBlaster 16!

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      6 months ago

      My dad used to disable the motherboard speaker because the noises games made back then were more annoying than fun. We eventually got a soundcard, and that was awesome.

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      And you could plug in your joystick into the soundcard, because where else would you put joystick, right? Perfectly logical.