Obsolete software which enhances PC audio without replacing speakers
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RealSound is a patented (US US5054086 A) technology for the PC created by Steve Witzel of Access Software during the late 1980s.[1] RealSound enables 6-bit[2] digitized pulse-code modulation (PCM)-audio playback on the PC speaker by means of pulse-width modulation (PWM) drive, allowing software control of the loud speaker's amplitude of displacement. The first video games to use it were World Class Leader Board and Echelon, both released in 1988. At the time of release, sound cards were very expensive and RealSound allowed players to hear lifelike sounds and speech with no additional sound hardware, just the standard PC speaker.[3]
RealSound was an impressive enough technology that a few other PC video game developers, like Legend Entertainment, licensed it for use in their own games. However, as the early 1990s progressed, sound card prices dropped to the point that they eventually became a baseline requirement for gaming PC-audio, leaving RealSound obsolete as it no longer filled a niche in the market.
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RealSound is a patented (US US5054086 A) technology for the PC created by Steve Witzel of Access Software during the late 1980s. RealSound enables 6-bit...
Access Software, developed techniques for digital sound reproduction over the PC speaker like RealSound. The resulting audio, while functional, suffered...
a commercial solution named RealSound used it to provide improved sound on several games. Obtaining a high fidelity sound output using this technique...
2024, the series had 2.1 million copies in circulation. Chanmei from RealSound praised the story and characters as emotional. Chanmei also praised the...
illusions of realsound or outside stimulus. These false perceptions are the equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are...
speaker, without the need for a sound card, using a technique akin to RealSound. Battle Chess can be played against a human opponent (by hotseat, null...
well as for its "RealSound" technology that allowed recorded digital audio to be played back without the need for an external sound card. Martian Memorandum...
while others evolved from hardcore punk. Japanese pop culture website RealSound wrote that similarities between the appearances and behavior of the founders...
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video games, and online media. Sound effects were originally added to productions by creating the sounds needed in real-time. Various devices and props...
Soundproofing is any means of impeding sound propagation. There are several basic ways to reduce sound: increasing the distance between source and receiver...
are distinct from purely audio games (e.g. the 1997 Sega Saturn release RealSound: Kaze no Regret) in that they feature a visual feedback, to lead the player...
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as a maverick during the mid-1990s for creating unorthodox games like RealSound and is perhaps best remembered today for his rebellious marketing techniques...
the manga tells the reader what to think at times. Kazushi Shimada from RealSound [ja] praised the story's message about looking for the deeper meaning...
controller design, psychoacoustics, and real-time systems for composition and performance. "Princeton Sound Lab". soundlab.cs.princeton.edu. v t e v...
produces 'animated' audioscapes, oddly situating twisted and chopped real-sound samples . . . combining elements that don't have any clear relationship...
(February 8, 2020). "『Nizi Project』、26名での東京合宿がスタート ダンスレベルテストは鈴野未光がキューブを獲得". RealSound (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved...
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