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Wow you are messing up timelines and your projecting your experience/reason/hobbies on the market. DVD drives weren’t even a thing when people stopped buying s

Wow you are messing up timelines and your projecting your experience/reason/hobbies on the market. DVD drives weren’t even a thing when people stopped buying soundcards. Yeah a small selection wanted 3d sound for a gaming edge, and that was available on low cost cards pretty soon. Before that they a place, but all features were available through software. The mixer, sampler, channels.

cat199 7y ago
> DVD drives weren’t even a thing when people stopped buying soundcards. pretty sure these happened at around the same time. Single data point: my 486-era machine (92): - bolt on sb16+cdrom as part of 'multimedia upgrade' (MPC II) my pentium-I era machine (96): - came with sb16+cdrom (MPC III) my pentium-II era machine (98): - came with integrated DVD-ROM + ac97 audio none of these were particularly 'special' as far as 'what people were buying then'