I found a lot of appreciation for DOS because I did in fact grow up with it, just the later period of it. Sometimes I'd play these games on DOS that I once played on the Amiga, and yeah, they "sort of" looked the same, some of them. At the time I really did not understand just how different games could be from system to system. I'm pretty sure at the time most people were recommending Fellow for DOS as the Amiga emulator of choice, not WinUAE. and besides maybe Nesticle, there were no "well known" emulators. Wing Commander didn't work with it, no protected mode games did, which was most games! Having grown up with the Amiga - In the mid to late 90's I was starting to want to see the games I used to play.
I got a SoundBlaster AWE because I read it had MT-32 emulation along with sounding pretty damn good with the wavetable games it supported. They were definitely not utilizing what the Sound Blaster "could" do, and that's the story with most other companies. Their "Sound Blaster" support for Wing Commander Privateer and WingIII ISSSS Adlib, even though I don't believe the Adlib card was supported anymore.
And Origin supported Adlib long after it died. Sometimes I can sort of like it on the Sega Genesis, sometimes they did great things there. I mean it's deeper with me, because I TRULY HATE the DOS FM music in almost every game. Which I got just to be able to play a game I love in a new light and see the charms it had to offer. I really don't like comments like that that because I don't think it's that clear cut. Despite the Amiga's version of the Wing Commander music being generally praised I have often seen a simple light hearted and good comment saying "loved the Amiga's music" replied to with a very short, sly, smart ass comment of "then you never played it with the MT-32" - As if any of them have played it with a real MT-32. This is a topic caused by a general frustration over "tiny" comments I sometimes see in various places on the internet when discussing Wing Commander's music.
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