Comment Re:Best Wishes ! (Score 1) 322
Within a year... yeah, most decent peripherals had drivers. At midnight on the day Windows 95 went on sale across America? They were basically nonexistent, From what I remember, soundcards were a MAJOR pain point for YEARS. Gravis totally dropped the ball with the Ultrasound (eventually releasing crippled win32 drivers that sort of worked, but if you wanted to play
I seem to remember that CD-ROM drives were another source of realmode misery, but I'm not really sure *why*. I think it was because the drives themselves were IDE, but Adaptec held a patent on something and wouldn't allow Microsoft to bake support for CD-ROM drives into Windows without paying royalties, so Microsoft just left everyone to suffer with the Adaptec-licensed realmode drivers that came in the box with the drives (and began a 20-year tradition of always finding some petty way to cripple Windows' native handling of optical drives absent expensive thirdparty software).