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I think it was the DB50XG that did its own thing, but I may not have exploited all it could do. I intended to do more music stuff with it, but mostly just played games

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_XG

Ah, General MIDI... I remember it well and have a story about this in later chronicles. It does look a little proprietary though, the old DOS games supported this card and that card before it all settled down.

This was a Windows 95 machine (I think), so drivers were less of an issue by then.