Amiga never even answered the competition, just kept showing up with the original sound design... For 1200 and a4000 especially, amiga sound was incredibly out dated...
They had a prototype A3000+ with 16bit 2 channel DSP in addition to the Paula.
They just lacked focus and direction, so they never brought it to market.
I had all sorts of 16bit PC sound cards in the 486 era. Most games did not use use multi-channel digital sounds (via mixing). The 16bit digital sound channel was usually dedicated to sound effects while the multi-voice music was done on the Yamaha FM synth chip which typically made everything sound like an 8bit NES.
There was the Gravis Ultrasound card which was truly amazing, but had very little software support.
That is why people with money would get a Roland MT32 in addition to a SandBlaster.
