Dysan27 t1_ja70v3b wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:51 AM

Reply to comment by GalFisk in ELI5: in MS-DOS there were not-interchangeable audio cards and we had to manually select it to get sound, otherwise there was none at all. When and why this stopped being a problem? by 3RBlank

>There were a few standards

There were, but the only ones that I remember were "Soundblaster" "Soundblaster 16" and "Soundblaster 32" that were only standards because those cards were very popular so most games would support them. So competitors made their cards compatible with that interface.

GalFisk t1_ja79a55 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:53 AM

I recall also often being able to choose between Ad Lib, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland MT-32, Tandy, and sometimes PC Speaker.