@root42 Sound Blaster 2.0, 1992ish. 890mk so about 140€. If I remember correctly, all my birthday money anyway. Still have it. Floppies and all.

@root42 It could be we both had the same setup.

When asked for a gift i insisted on a soundcard *with* an input jack. (there were cheaper ones without). i remember getting a card (SB1.0) similar to that, with a volume dial on the back.

put it in my SX25 based machine! :) that dreaded slow FPU-less (fractal software :(:(), black Escom-Bigtower housed budget cpu. Sampling was horrrrrrible, but i can clearly remember the Windows Soundrecorder; and my disappointment. nice flashback:)

@root42 ProAudio Spectrum 16

@root42 I had a hand-built "Covox", a.k.a. resistor-grid on the parallel port in a literal machbox. Then an Adlib clone I think. Then an original SB 2.0. Then some SB Pro clone, ESS688 based. No idea where these went. Then finally a Gravis Ultrasound 1MB, so I can watch demos as they were intended. Still have this one, although I sold it for a while, and had a GUS PnP instead.

@root42 Mine was a generic card based on the ESS AudioDrive 1688 chip. I stuck that puppy in my 486DX33. Those were the days!

@root42 mine was the awesome Sound Blaster AWE32

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In my computer: Something from Aztech Sound Galaxy series 🥳
Family computer earlier: Sound Blaster Pro 😎

@root42 Self bought? A SB AWE64 (I still have it) 😊

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ALS100 - one of the cheap Soundblaster-compatibles

@root42 I can’t remember what was in my 386DX40, I think it also had a volume control wheel. But I do still have my Sound Galaxy Pro 16, which is currently in my P166MMX AT machine, which is in the 386’s original case.

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not quite sure anymore if it was Soundblaster 2 or pro - it was the ISA-version and came bundled with Lemmings and Indianapolis 500 afair

@root42 Sound Blaster 2.0, in a 386sx/16!

I don't know lol. That was our family PC and I was like 3 years old at the time we got it. But the first computer I had completely to myself had some sound chip built into the motherboard. It just worked on XP with no drivers or configuration.