At a time when many home computers included sophisticated hardware used to generate music and sound effects, IBM's first PC - designed primarily for small business use - only came equipped with a ...

Before the AdLib sound card, sound on PCs was in a terrible shape. Since the dawn of IBM, all PCs included a speaker, but this PC speaker was only capable of sounding one note at a time. Chords on the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rich Heimlich is a big name in parts of the gaming industry. He created the first ever QA company ...

Does anyone out there remember playing Wing Commander without a sound card? Yeah, I'm so old-school that even old-school doesn't have a name for us (Ed: I think they do, they call you "old") and games ...

Back in the day (which, for you youngsters, is a scientific measurement of time reserved for anyone who used to walk to school during snowstorms, uphill, both ways), integrated audio solutions had ...