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They didn't have to learn what irq is the hard way and I am so thankful for the ability to read and edit bootloaders and ini files with no guardrails and error diode manual pages for giving me barely enough clues to learn from the ground up
Port 220. IRQ 5. DMA 1.
SoundBlaster?
Your sound card works perfectly.
Ohhh man that sound has to be one of the most cathartic in the history of mankind
Nothing like having an config.sys/autoexec.bat menu to make sure you have the right TSRs and XMS or EMS configuration to run this game or the other. The ecosystem forced you to learn things you may have never been inclined to learn to get at the experience you actually wanted.