[rytis]

> Sound output? Sure, just set up DMA and IRQ yourself for your Soundblaster card. I mean, you have one of those right?

What has OS got to do with possession of some hardware?

[turol]

If the OS doesn't provide an actual sound API developers will only write support for the most popular sound cards.

[fullstop]

I remember games which had extra features if you had a Gravis UltraSound.

[raverbashing]

The knowledge gap of the modern js devs is funny, thinking MS-DOS has any concept of what a soundcard is.

Though even first Unixes "it's a file, just write to it" were better but just above the bare minimum