The point of my endeavor here is to get the best possible experience from genuine hardware of the era, so DOSBox, UQM, etc. aren't an option. I'm sorry if the placement of my thread in this particular forum may have suggested otherwise; it seemed like the best place since I'd seen threads on real …

Or, I guess, put another way: what's my best option for an ISA card that will let me hear SC2's music in stereo, and have excellent compatibility with other early-to-mid-90s games? I appreciate any advice you can offer.

Recently, I was running Star Control II under straight MS-DOS on a P-133 with a Sound Blaster 16, and getting only mono sound with a harsh metallic quality. It was then that I found out about the difference in the ways the Sound Blaster Pro and the Sound Blaster 16 handle stereo. The Sound Blaster …