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by mortenlarsen 1500 days ago
The earliest Sound Blasters had IRQ7 as default. This conflicted with LPT1 so the default was changed to IRQ5. There are a few games like "Gods (1991)" and "Space Quest III (1989)" that have IRQ7 hardcoded, so for best compatibility with older games IRQ7 is needed.