Let's talk about the dreaded "Monkey Wrench" puzzle

[Frenzie]

@LogicDeLuxe

To be fair, you couldn’t even turn it off, unless you built in a switch for it or simply pulled the plug. Nothing what the average PC user would do.

The IBM PS/2 I had in my room in the early 2000s actually had a green volume slider, so you could turn it off. Also it sounded great. (The burned in grayscale CRT was slightly less amazing, looked perfectly fine though.) By comparison, we had a Soundblaster 16 in our Pentium 100 with decent enough speakers, so I knew what properly good audio sounded like.

The Secret of Monkey Island EGA

A quick search gave me this video: That sounds a lot better than the PC speaker on my Pentium 3, probably slightly better than the PC speaker on my Pentium 100, and worse than the PC speaker on my IBM PS/2. For me Monkey Island sounded like this: I kind of want one of these but it has no nostalgic value:

Your song-of-the-day, based on your current mood

According to Wikipedia: A PC speaker is a loudspeaker built into some IBM PC compatible computers. The first IBM Personal Computer, model 5150, employed a standard 2.25 inch magnetic driven (dynamic) speaker.[1] More recent computers use a piezoelectric speaker instead.[2] So that’s probably it. The PS/2 must’ve had a regular dynamic speaker, possibly the exact same model as those earlier IBM PCs, while (my) later computers had a piezoelectric speaker. And perhaps the Pentium 100 had a worse…

Your song-of-the-day, based on your current mood

And of course LGR just came out with a video replacing a crappy PC speaker for a good one! Edit: