What sound card to get?

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

lol. He does have a point though. Soundblaster was almost the default for dos games back then, it was semi plug and play. If you had a generic sound card you almost allways had to mess with IRQs and DMAs to get the damn thing to work. Ah the fun of making boot disks.

Oh I agree, I go back to DOS 5 as well, owned quite a few Sounblaster's in my time, under this very desk is an old P200 with a Matrox card and an original 3DFX mk 1 card I've put together for nostalgia with DOS 6.22 on it as an OS, folk these days have no idea of the hassle we had back then, trying to free up enough conventional memory to run Strike Commander and such like, fun though.

Much as Creative have had some good cards, they have made some garbage too, also there was that case where they lost a lot of customers when they tried to stop a third party guy making free drivers for Audigy's and such like that Creative refused to carry on supporting for Vista I think it was, they backed down on that one, they had to.

I don't think I'd ever support any bit of silicon to the hilt, as soon as I see something better I'll go for it, no brand loyalty here