Retro Rocket includes built-in support for both sound and graphics. You don’t need to install drivers or change any settings — everything is automatic.

Graphics

• The system uses your PC’s built-in graphics to display text, colours, and pixel art.
• Demos and programs (such as cube, graphicstest, or demo) can draw directly to the screen.
• Resolution and colour depth are detected at boot and just work.
• There is no need to configure graphics drivers.

Sound

• If your PC has a supported sound chip (AC’97 or HDA), music and sound effects play automatically.
• Programs can use SOUND, ENVELOPE, and other BASIC keywords to generate tones or play tracker modules.
• Demo programs like bach, musicdemo, and modplay show off the audio system.
• If no sound device is present, programs still run - you just won’t hear audio output.

Notes

• Retro Rocket is focused on simplicity: sound and graphics are built-in parts of the system, not add-ons.
• Demos and examples are the easiest way to see (and hear) what the system can do.
• Advanced users can also explore writing their own audio and graphics programs in BASIC.