We're close to the same age. I remember that I had certain games with awesome boot disk creation utilities, and I knew which disks would help with which games. Although, those were always just the next step after running memmaker again, hoping that it would find just a little extra (but not really understanding what it was doing).

And I remember being a little disappointed when a game only supported the PC Speaker or Adlib, but shrugging, and deciding to be grateful that I didn't have to worry about getting digital audio working too.