For those veteran linux people, what was it like back in 90s? I did see and hear of Unix systems being available for use but I did not see much apart from old versions of Debian in use.

Were they prominent in education like universities? Was it mainly a hobbyist thing at the time compared to the business needs of 98, 95 and classic mac?

I ask this because I found out that some PC games I owned were apparently also on Linux even in CD format from a firm named Loki.

  • Cyborganism
    11·
    3 days ago

    LoL!!! IRQ 5 DMA 220 for me. Had to manually adjust the jumper on the sound card.

    Fucking hell…

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Port 220.

      IRQ 5, port 220h, DMA 1 was what I used for my SoundBlaster 2.

      Later I used IRQ 5, port 220h, DMA 1, high DMA 5 for my SoundBlaster 16.

      • Cyborganism
        4·
        2 days ago

        Do you think it’s worth getting a Sound Blaster card today? I’ve read you can get better sound effects in game. Can’t the on board audio chips do that now?

        • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 days ago

          I gotta be honest, I haven’t used a dedicated sound card since the Vista/7 era when EAX stopped being a thing and onboard sound could handle 5.1 output just fine. The last one I had was a SoundBlaster Audigy.

          These days the main uses for dedicated sound interfaces are for when you need something like XLR in/out and then you’ll probably go with something USB.