This is the first and certainly not the last PBX that will appear on this show.
Just confirming (here instead of YouTube comments for no reason whatsoever) that I was the kid who played the shareware episode of Jazz Jackrabbit with the PC speaker and didn't know any better. its me
I mean, I should have. The computer in question had a sound card. It was actually a pretty decent one even, an ESS 1688 if I remember what's in that childhood Pentium 133. But mucking around in setup programs was things Mom and Dad do, not something little ol' me does. Same with a few other DOS games like Commander Keen 4 (I think) and Hocus Pocus (I know for sure). Did use proper sound in Chex Quest at least? Does that even run a setup program before jumping straight into the thick of it? I also know sound worked perfectly fine in Day of the Tentacle (talkie).
Of course, at no point in my adult life have I used anything less than Sound Blaster support in any of these, I know better now, but kid me? lmao no.
Recurring nightmares about games that fail auto-detection of the sound card because the CPU is too fast for the detection program and thus can't get working sound except through the PC speaker
So I can't actually find any hits on google for this which probably means I misremembered.
but I could have sworn there was a very specific window of time where one of the processor manufacturers would make the CPU scream relevant information if the motherboard alert speaker was detached, I guess by overdriving it (or maybe making the power supply do it by rapidly being mean to it), and if it did exist, now I'm wondering if it did it for more than BIOS beep codes.
I want to say it was from the 90s or even early 2000s, when things didn't strictly need active cooling. Otherwise it seems more obvious to do it through the fan drive circuitry, and also that would probably drown out the noise it makes.
Anyway I'm imagining playing a game in the most dogshit CGA color scheme, with the processor occasionally setting itself on fire to make the sound effects play.
