![]() ![]() ![]() The format is notable in that it was the last WAD lump format to be properly decoded and understood. For example, the sound of a pistol firing is stored in the lump named "DSPISTOL" the corresponding PC speaker sound effect is named "DPPISTOL". While digital sound effects have the prefix "DS" inside the Doom IWAD, PC speaker sound effects have the prefix "DP". ![]() As a workaround for this, id Software included two sets of sound effects: alongside each of the digital sound effects that are played on sound cards, there is an equivalent PC speaker sound effect that plays through the PC speaker found on all PCs. Therefore, a large number of the computers playing Doom did not have sound cards. When Doom was released, digital sound cards had not yet become as ubiquitous as they now are. Chocolate Doom running with emulated PC speaker sound effects.
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