[christkv]

Man I remember when I got the sound blaster 1.0 directly from Singapore it was amazing. Even had the gameblaster chips that worked with a handful of games. The next big card for me was the gravis ultrasound which was a must when you were into the whole demoscene in the late 90s.

[inDigiNeous]

I remember seeing the box for Sound Blaster 2.0 at a friends house and just looking at it felt magical at the time. And those soap box speakers powered by batteries, you just can't replicate that sound on modern systems and their fancypants speakers and soundchips.

GUS was definitely a game changer for me also, I can still remember how much cleaner and yet at the same time warmer the sounds outputted by GUS were when used correctly.

At that time these chips and cards still had their signature sounds, kinda missing this period in a way.