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
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games
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DOS 1989
DOS 1990
DOS 1993
DOS 1991
DOS 1990
DOS 1989
DOS 1996
DOS 1994-06-01
DOS 1991-12
DOS 1990
DOS 1990
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)
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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Related groups
Hardware
Tandy SPU, Tandy Video II, Tandy 1000 platform
Games by year
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 |
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