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Tandy DAC

Hardware entity

Late model Tandy MS-DOS compatible PCs added 8-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter hardware & protocols for HQ music & sound at 48kHz & emulation of other SPUs

91
games
1
platform
Gauntlet II (MS-DOS)
Gauntlet II
DOS 1989
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Enhanced Version (MS-DOS)
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Enhanced Version
DOS 1990
Creepers (MS-DOS)
Creepers
DOS 1993
The Adventures of Willy Beamish (MS-DOS)
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
DOS 1991
Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact (MS-DOS)
Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact
DOS 1990
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (MS-DOS)
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
DOS 1989
Hariboy's Quest (MS-DOS)
Hariboy's Quest
DOS 1996
Hocus Pocus (MS-DOS)
Hocus Pocus
DOS 1994-06-01
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (MS-DOS)
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
DOS 1991-12
Silent Service II (MS-DOS)
Silent Service II
DOS 1990
Ghostbusters II (MS-DOS)
Ghostbusters II
DOS 1990
Super Tetris (MS-DOS)
Super Tetris
DOS 1992
Tandy 8-bit DAC hardware is a type of Covox Speech Thing clone but resided in internal hardware rather than occupying the parallel port and the necessary CPU bandwidth need to converse with that port. It benefited from DMA allowing sound and music to be processed without taking up CPU cycles. It is capable of playback and synthesizing of 48kHz sound and music. It was used to emulate other sound hardware such as the Speech Thing and certain functions of Sound Blaster cards. Or, games could simple use all six channels at once as the DAC was integrated with the previous "Tandy 3 Voice" hardware.

Voice 1, Square wave, Independent Volume, ABSR can be simulated using the CPU
Voice 2, Square wave, Independent Volume, ABSR can be simulated using the CPU
Voice 3, Square wave, Independent Volume, ABSR can be simulated using the CPU
Voice 4, Noise, Full Volume
Speaker, Square wave, Full Volume only
Digital-to-Analog Converter (Tandy DAC)

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Parent group

Sound Processing Units

Related groups

Hardware
Tandy SPU, Tandy Video II, Tandy 1000 platform

Games by year

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The first Tandy DAC video game was released in 1989.

Sierra On-Line, Brøderbund and Activision published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 91