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I can't remember if Macs came standard with things like sound cards back then. They were an option on a PC. Playing a game in 1992 like Wolf3D or Duke Nukem II
by bluedino 7y ago
I can't remember if Macs came standard with things like sound cards back then. They were an option on a PC.
Playing a game in 1992 like Wolf3D or Duke Nukem II was a very, very different experience using the bleeps and bloops of the PC speaker compared to even an 8-bit sound card, much less the great music you could get on a 16-bit card with wavetable synth.
We had an IBM Aptiva at school that cost $3500 (ours was free from Campbell's soup labels), it had a 640x480x256 screen, 2X CD-ROM, and a sound card with speakers. It had a few kid-oriented games where you basically pointed/clicked at stuff, our teacher wouldn't let us install any 'cool' games.
- ido 7y agoEven the very first Mac from 1984 had decent sound by default - sound cards were not required on the Macintosh.