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I remember building a resistor ladder DA converter and connecting it to the parallel port. Software like No$ gameboy emulator used it, and it was easy enough to write to the parallel port directly.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

Was a fairly common thing back in the day for software to support it, also went by the name Disney Sound System.


I still have the connector with the resistor ladder laying in a drawer down here. A parallel port plug with a audio connector coming out of the back. :) Good times.




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