[OmIsMyShield]

Ha! Likewise. I borrowed money from my grandmother to buy a soundblaster II if I remember correctly. I also remember that I got home, it didn't work, turns out I had insufficient RAM, had to upgrade to 1MB, and fiddle with EMM386 in some .sys file to get the voice to work in Dune II. But oh man, that first "The planet Arrakis" spoken by a human gave me the shivers

[monocularvision]

My 386DX with 1MB and a SoundBlaster Pro (I think) could barely manage this game’s audio for some reason. The intro video’s audio would cut out at times. My brother and I still recite back the humorous portions to this day.

[GordonS]

Hehe, I remember tinkering with 2 files in the root (config.sys and autoexec.bat?) for hours and hours trying to free enough memory for the Soundblaster drivers to run!

[GordonS]

Hah, I recalled correctly: http://www.cubic.org/docs/configuring.htm

That link really brings back some memories!

[SketchySeaBeast]

I remember trying to free up memory by throwing LOADHIGH in front of everything. With no internet we were all just making it up as we went along.

[aaron_m04]

Is that 1MB in addition to the 640KB?

[IntelMiner]

Uh,

Assuming he meant a Sound Blaster 2.0, that came out in 1991

Dune II came out in December, 1992

640KB of ram would've been pretty dated by that point

[OmIsMyShield]

Yup my PC was... what's the polite phrasing? Let's say "not envied by my peers". A hunk o' junk, in other words.