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the slotlessness of sound cards



WAAAAY back on Jan 12 1999 (doing my homework!), Supertimer wrote:

> Hi, the Sonic Blaster plugs into a slot and the cable plugs into
> the Ensoniq connector on the motherboard (J25, I think).
> You do not need drivers and you do not need to set the card
> to 'your card.'  The Sonic Blaster is just an
> amplifier/demultiplexer.  It works completely transparently.

Even further back, in 1992, Jamie P Yoon wrote:

> The MIDI isn't very well supported, I hear.  There is an update to
> DiversiTune that will work with the Audio Animator.  I don't know about
> other music software.

Which makes me wonder... if there was a piece of software with a
patch specific to a particular sound card (Audio Animator), are
all the sound cards able to be used "slotlessly", or do some (which?)
require using the "Your Card" setting?