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RE: The Software Piracy Chronicles of Slobberchops – Part Eleven
I seemed to escape the Amiga viruses, but then I wasn't swapping discs with many people, although I did get a lot of mail-order shareware and was downloading from the BBS.
I don't think I ever had a Soundblaster, but when I got my first PC (Pentium II I think) I opted for a nice Yamaha sound card as well as Matrox graphics. I've lost track of all my PCs over the years since then. I built loads of them.
That Yamaha card may have been some form of Adlib or Soundblaster compatible, a lot came of those appeared later on. It was great to the see the Creative Labs dudes in the early days before they became massive.
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.