Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't remember which software I used, I don't specifically recall it being realsound, but I had a soundblaster emulator driver that used the pc speaker that wasn't half bad. Got me through hours of Kings Quest and Space Quest. I also used a driver that made the computer think my monochrome monitor had CGA capabilities.
Wasn't the last one mainly to use Hercules cards in cga only applications?
Probably, I mostly used it to play games on hardware that they generally didn't want to run on.