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d3Xt3rtoday at 5:54 AM1 replyview on HN

I actually rewired my internal PC speaker to a big external speaker just so that I could hear the music/sfx of the game in all its glory.

And that awesome intro animation too - never seen anything like it at the time, like simply seeing realistic human faces being drawn in a DOS game was just mind blowing.


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achairaparttoday at 10:46 AM

Best PC Speaker music ever was Xenon II, by Bomb the Bass[0] (which much later I discovered was a re-rendition of Carpenter' Assault on Precint 13 OST[1]).

May sound silly for some people today, but that was some incredible wizardry at the times, given the limitations (PC speaker was monophonic, square-wave only). As a YouTube comment says: "This is musical equivalent to pixel art."

And a great game too!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izadA3nSPbk

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5UU2TxOcZs