8bit PC audio with no sound card!

This is a clone of a COVOX Speech Thing which is a resistor DAC running from the printer port. I've hooked it up to my Schneider Euro PC with has an NEC V20 CPU, a small CF card hard drive on an XTIDE ISA card and 512KB RAM. In this video we will be playing a few MOD files on it.
The restoration blog posts for this machine can be found at: linuxjedi.co.uk/tag/euro-pc/
Music used:
Hymn To Aurora, used under the "Mod Archive Distribution license": modarchive.org/module.php?99684
Elysium, used under the "Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license": modarchive.org/module.php?40475
Stardust Memories, used under the "Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license": modarchive.org/module.php?59344

[@NumosG]

I had built one like this for my 486 back in the day. Just resistors wired to the db25 connector and an audio cable soldered to them. Worked for some demos even. :)

[@linuxjedivideo]

I think quite a few people built these, but it passed me by until recently.
Yes, there are a small number of games and demos it works on. Not many will run on this 8088 based machine.
You can also run some Disney Sound Source audio though it (Prince of Persia for example), but it will sound wrong as the DSS buffers the audio and plays back at a fixed speed.

[@NigelsWorkbench]

But can it play the music from Xenon 2 Megablast! 😂

[@linuxjedivideo]

Technically, yes. The MOD files exist for Xenon 2 and this should be able to play them 🙂

[@3dohd]

I have to ask.. are you *the* Andrew Hutchings who developed Starfighter?

[@linuxjedivideo]

Unfortunately I am not. I do get asked that quite a bit, turns out my name is popular amongst people working in tech 🙂

[@endoflevelboss]

If you say any sentence without the word "essentially" at the beginning it will still work perfectly. People use "essentially" as a tedious decoration in a bid to sound clever. It's redundant.

[@linuxjedivideo]

I used "essentially" here because I was over-simplifying for those who hadn't seen one before. It may not have been the correct word, or I may not have had my words in the correct order, but it was not redundant.
It was an unscripted video, I recorded in a small window of spare time, so filtering my use of language was not high on the priority list.

[@endoflevelboss]

@@linuxjedivideo Precisely. It was unscripted and so your natural word usage was allowed to propagate unfiltered. And your unfiltered use prefixes sentences with "essentially" when it's not needed. Essentially it's a resistive DAC that plugs into your parallel port. Could have been: it's a resistive DAC that plugs into your parallel port. See how you used the word "essentially" to embellish your sentence, trying to sound clever? Guilty as charged!