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After looking through several CD-ROMs, I guess I finallly found the best version of the Soundblaster 16 driver for DOS, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. Here it is installing on my 25MHz COMPAQ Deskpro 386. 😉
https://archive.org/details/sb-16
#DOS #Retro #Tech #90s #90er #DOSGaming #PCGaming #Soundblaster #86Box #Emulation #Driver #Windows
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Good morning. I am waking up to find some MIDI issue in one of my 86Box machines. It seems 86Box broke or changed something with a recent code update.
Took me a few minutes to figure this out. The Soundblaster 16 is now set to an MPU-401 address of 0x300, while 0x330 is still being used by the Roland MT-32 emulation. Windows 3.1 is satisfied using the 0x300 address after I changed its settings to use it, while DOS games like "The Secret of Monkey Island" are still working fine with the MT-32 music emulation. Before that, I had simply turned off the SB16's MIDI address altogether. Oh, well... maybe this new setting really does make more sense. 😉
Happy retro gaming, everybody!
#MIDI #86Box #Emulation #MT32 #SoundBlaster #SB16 #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Retro #90s #80s #Oldschool
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Good morning. I am waking up to find some MIDI issue in one of my 86Box machines. It seems 86Box broke or changed something with a recent code update.
Took me a few minutes to figure this out. The Soundblaster 16 is now set to an MPU-401 address of 0x300, while 0x330 is still being used by the Roland MT-32 emulation. Windows 3.1 is satisfied using the 0x300 address after I changed its settings to use it, while DOS games like "The Secret of Monkey Island" are still working fine with the MT-32 music emulation. Before that, I had simply turned off the SB16's MIDI address altogether. Oh, well... maybe this new setting really does make more sense. 😉
Happy retro gaming, everybody!
#MIDI #86Box #Emulation #MT32 #SoundBlaster #SB16 #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Retro #90s #80s #Oldschool
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Update: Added an internal amplifier and speakers. Need to figure out how to clean this wiring mess up, then 3D print some panels.
A REAL SoundBlaster AWE64 in a briefcase. With 28MB RAM expansion. Designed for Cubic Player. Running FreeDOS. Vortex86 CPU / 512MB RAM. Battery powered, basically a laptop you'd never take to an airport 😆
#retro #retrocomputing #freedos #cubicplayer #tracker #demoscene #music #s3m #mod #awe64 #soundblaster
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A REAL SoundBlaster AWE64 in a briefcase. With 28MB RAM expansion. Designed for Cubic Player. Running FreeDOS. Vortex86 CPU / 512MB RAM. Battery powered, basically a laptop you'd never take to an airport 😆
#retro #retrocomputing #freedos #cubicplayer #tracker #demoscene #music #s3m #mod #awe64 #soundblaster
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OPL3 Snooper on F256K2: A Hands-On YMF262 Explorer
#OPL3 #YMF262 #F256K2 #FMSynthesis #VGM #AdLib #SoundBlaster #RetroComputing #Foenix #AnyBitFeverDreams
https://theoasisbbs.com/opl3-snooper-on-f256k2-a-hands-on-ymf262-explorer/?fsp_sid=370 -
OPL3 Snooper on F256K2: A Hands-On YMF262 Explorer
#OPL3 #YMF262 #F256K2 #FMSynthesis #VGM #AdLib #SoundBlaster #RetroComputing #Foenix #AnyBitFeverDreams
https://theoasisbbs.com/opl3-snooper-on-f256k2-a-hands-on-ymf262-explorer/?fsp_sid=370 -
OPL3 Snooper on F256K2: A Hands-On YMF262 Explorer
#OPL3 #YMF262 #F256K2 #FMSynthesis #VGM #AdLib #SoundBlaster #RetroComputing #Foenix #AnyBitFeverDreams
https://theoasisbbs.com/opl3-snooper-on-f256k2-a-hands-on-ymf262-explorer/?fsp_sid=370 -
OPL3 Snooper on F256K2: A Hands-On YMF262 Explorer
#OPL3 #YMF262 #F256K2 #FMSynthesis #VGM #AdLib #SoundBlaster #RetroComputing #Foenix #AnyBitFeverDreams
https://theoasisbbs.com/opl3-snooper-on-f256k2-a-hands-on-ymf262-explorer/?fsp_sid=370 -
OPL3 Snooper on F256K2: A Hands-On YMF262 Explorer
#OPL3 #YMF262 #F256K2 #FMSynthesis #VGM #AdLib #SoundBlaster #RetroComputing #Foenix #AnyBitFeverDreams
https://theoasisbbs.com/opl3-snooper-on-f256k2-a-hands-on-ymf262-explorer/?fsp_sid=370 -
This week we look at Amarok’s massive 3.3 update, Creative’s modular Sound Blaster reboot, Linux running in a web browser through WebAssembly, and the endlessly expandable Intel-powered LattePanda IOTA project board.
https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/11/new-sound-blaster-supports-linux/
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Siemaaaaano!! Nowy film na kanale właśnie się pokazał! Tym razem firma Creative dostarczyła mi genialny model zewnętrznej karty dźwiękowej - #SoundBlaster #X5 - zobaczcie sami co mam do powiedzenia w temacie tego cudeńka: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjtU... To co, widzimy się w komentarzach?
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Remember my NES chiptune cover of the #KnightRider theme?
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@PixelProphecy/115092895223554752
Well. Now I made an OPL-2 AdLib cover. 😅✨
🔊Sound on!
EDIT: Here’s the download link for you:
► https://www.sephcarissa.com/music/knight-rider-adlib-opl-2/#music #chipmusic #furnace #adlib #fmsynth #retro #soundblaster
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Reviving a Scrapped Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA Soundcard https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/reviving-a-scrapped-sound-blaster-2-0-isa-soundcard/ #soundblaster #RepairHacks #Creative
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Reviving a Scrapped Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA Soundcard - What do you do when you find a ISA Sound Blaster 2.0 card in a pile of scrap? Try ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/reviving-a-scrapped-sound-blaster-2-0-isa-soundcard/ #soundblaster #repairhacks #creative
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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-story-of-creative-technology
#HackerNews #CreativeTechnology #SoundBlaster #AudioInnovation #TechHistory #GamingAudio
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Sound Blaster: la tarjeta de sonido que puso música a nuestra infancia digital https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/07/sound-blaster-la-tarjeta-de-sonido-que-puso-musica-a-nuestra-infancia-digital.html #soundblaster #tarjeta #sonido
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Recuerdo que con la #SoundBlaster Pro 2 me vino una copia del #Lemmings, uno de los simpáticos #juegos de puzzles distribuido por la Psygnosis. El otro día encontré el manual y un "minipóster" del mismo.
Lo bueno que en #GNU tenemos un clon perfecto, el #Pingus! Pruébenlo si no lo conocen. 🐧 #retrocomputo
https://pingus.seul.org/ -
Look into those soulless optics... . . . . . . #transformerswarforcybertronsiege #transformers #toyphotography #photography #lightpiping #soundblaster #ratbat #decepticons #diorama ##miniatures #toys #actionfigures
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Some soundblaster goodness. That lightpiping is delicious. . . . . . . #transformerswarforcybertronsiege #transformers #toyphotography #photography #lightpiping #soundblaster #ratbat #decepticons #diorama ##miniatures #toys #actionfigures
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Ancient SoundBlaster Cards Just Got A Driver Update https://hackaday.com/2025/06/28/ancient-soundblaster-cards-just-got-a-driver-update/ #SoundBlaster #LinuxHacks #Creative #AWE32 #linux
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Ancient SoundBlaster Cards Just Got A Driver Update - Old hardware tends to get less support as the years go by, from both manufacturers... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/28/ancient-soundblaster-cards-just-got-a-driver-update/ #soundblaster #linuxhacks #creative #awe32 #linux
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Linux 6.16 RC3 released!
It includes a system freeze bug fix for the SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA sound card!
#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates #SoundBlaster #Creative #AWE32
https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/linux-6-16-rc3-released/
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.. and suddenly I find myself back in the #90s where we saw the future of home computing unfold before our eyes. The #PC - a bulky expensive machine for boring tunaheads running WordPerfect suddenly got graphics and sound that didn't suck.
Young aspiring programmers (that would be coders for you young people) wrote code in assembler and made the PC do thing it was never meant to. Awesome things. Things that blew your mind. Some wrote trackers for composing sample based music, and suddenly everyone could compose music on their PC.
The level of optimism and creativity was mind blowing, and I feel so incredibly lucky for having been a part of it. Sure, our demos were too horrible to be shown on the big screen, but we did submit at least one for #TheParty back in '92 or '94.
I miss the 90s.
This, by the way, is a sweet #Pentium 200MMX system with #PicoGUS, #SoundBlaster Vibra16 and an #TsengLabs #ET6000 graphics card (that's GPU for you young'uns).
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A fascinating new look at what is basically an Apple II Mockingboard soundcard...for the PC...sold by Mindscape.
"Do you own the rarest PC sound card in the world?" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeo4INoGyRY
#AppleII #IBMPC #DOSPC #DOS #soundcard #soundboard #AY38910 #SweetMicroSystems #Mockingboard #Mindscape #chiptune #audio #PCaudio #soundblaster #adlib #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #computinghistory #vintageapple #deepdive #video #gamers #games #interview #ADSR #nostalgia #tech
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It's fun playing Creative SoundBlaster EAX games on Windows XP and the SoundBlaster X-Fi SB0460, which adds reverb and environmental effects.
Windows Vista sadly pretty much killed EAX and although Alchemy was meant to keep compatibility, it was never quite the same.
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Can't believe I'm saying this, but the #Commodore 386-SX16 seems rock solid in comparison to the super flaky #aptiva.
Slow as hell, partially incompatible graphics but with a spiffy new #SoundBlaster compatible ISA card. This is the perfect rig for early #Sierra and #LucasArts games. Maybe I should get a #MT32-Pi #McCake WaveTable board for it, or maybe that's a little overkill.
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@polpo Nice. I have, and daily listen to my beloved GUS "Classic" in my 5x86 160, but the CPU doesn't have the stuff to do 30 channel tracks in software as would be needed for SB16 output, really.
What's the CPU you're working with?
I still want to pick up a PicoGUS, perhaps for other card emulation, though.
#GUS #PicoGUS #SB16 #SoundBlaster #GravisUltrasound #video #chiptune
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@polpo Nice. I have, and daily listen to my beloved GUS "Classic" in my 5x86 160, but the CPU doesn't have the stuff to do 30 channel tracks in software as would be needed for SB16 output, really.
What's the CPU you're working with?
I still want to pick up a PicoGUS, perhaps for other card emulation, though.
#GUS #PicoGUS #SB16 #SoundBlaster #GravisUltrasound #video #chiptune
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@polpo Nice. I have, and daily listen to my beloved GUS "Classic" in my 5x86 160, but the CPU doesn't have the stuff to do 30 channel tracks in software as would be needed for SB16 output, really.
What's the CPU you're working with?
I still want to pick up a PicoGUS, perhaps for other card emulation, though.
#GUS #PicoGUS #SB16 #SoundBlaster #GravisUltrasound #video #chiptune
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@polpo Nice. I have, and daily listen to my beloved GUS "Classic" in my 5x86 160, but the CPU doesn't have the stuff to do 30 channel tracks in software as would be needed for SB16 output, really.
What's the CPU you're working with?
I still want to pick up a PicoGUS, perhaps for other card emulation, though.
#GUS #PicoGUS #SB16 #SoundBlaster #GravisUltrasound #video #chiptune
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@polpo Nice. I have, and daily listen to my beloved GUS "Classic" in my 5x86 160, but the CPU doesn't have the stuff to do 30 channel tracks in software as would be needed for SB16 output, really.
What's the CPU you're working with?
I still want to pick up a PicoGUS, perhaps for other card emulation, though.
#GUS #PicoGUS #SB16 #SoundBlaster #GravisUltrasound #video #chiptune
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#vintagecomputing #MSDOS build progressing. #Pentium 200 with #TsengLabs #ET6000 graphics, CF for storage, #Gotek for floppies and a #PicoGUS with the #McCake #WP32 #MT32Pi wave table add on. Output looped into a #SoundBlaster Vibra 16C for full Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster, Roland and General Midi support. Excellent for all things DOS. Aiming for early to mid 90s games and demos, including point and click adventures from #Sierra and Lucas as well as some of the excellent demos from that time. I'm talking #MonkeyIsland, #LeisureSuitLarry and #FutureCrew and their #SecondReality demo. Tested the latter and got something in my eye. Oh the feels.
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UA: Але тепер маю проблему зі звуком самим, бо він глючний і заморожує систему поки звук не дограє. І ця проблема напевне є тільки з SoundBlaster 16 (sb16)
EN: But now I have an issue with sound itself because it's glitchy and it makes the system frozen till the end of audio playing. And only #SoundBlaster 16 ( #sb16 ) seems to have this issue
#virtualization #vm #virtualmachine #windows #winnt #retro #retropc #90s #1990s #nostalgia
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UA: Але тепер маю проблему зі звуком самим, бо він глючний і заморожує систему поки звук не дограє. І ця проблема напевне є тільки з SoundBlaster 16 (sb16)
EN: But now I have an issue with sound itself because it's glitchy and it makes the system frozen till the end of audio playing. And only #SoundBlaster 16 ( #sb16 ) seems to have this issue
#virtualization #vm #virtualmachine #windows #winnt #retro #retropc #90s #1990s #nostalgia
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you guys ever heard OPL3 sound like this 💀
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@h2owasser @Danijel_Majic
Kenne ich auch - hatte ich 1989 als ich als einer der ersten im PC eine #Soundblaster Karte hatte (und vorher hatte ich mir einen #Covox-Stecker selbstgebaut), und ich prophezeit habe, das in 1-2 Jahren die meisten PCs eine Soundkarte haben werden. Alle so: "So ein Quatsch, brauch niemand." 😂 -
This is a great, short video explaining "whatever happened to soundcards?"
(Spoiler: it was Windows Vista that ended them, but it's an interesting story.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5kGXI8vUKg
#PC #soundcards #audio #PCaudio #PCgaming #Windows #gamers #hardware #tech #techhistory #SoundBlaster #CreativeLabs #WindowsVista #video
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What we have here is my favorite #htpc loaded with a Pentium III, #gravisultrasound PnP, #soundblaster and #Yamaha DB50XG hardware MIDI daughterboard. It's a retro audio monster, and long #cubicplayer sessions are the norm! #sbc #retrocomputing #trackermusic #demoscene #msdos #freedos
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PicoGUS sound card back in stock for anyone interested.
Finally bought one.https://www.tindie.com/products/polpo/picogus-sound-card-emulator-for-isa-retro-pcs/
#RetroComputing #PicoGUS #tindie #AdLib #SoundBlaster -
Just said it elsewhere, I'll say it here: #HifiBerry Dac+ is the #SoundBlaster of 2024.
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Just some folks duking it out over the technical and aural merits of the Gravis Ultrasound vs. Creative Labs AWE32 wavetable soundcard platforms back in 1994.
Shots were fired. (...and the audio recorded in 8-bits, but interpolated up to 16-bits on playback, so ... it sounded pretty realistic.)
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy/c/O56-o5edYek?pli=1
#Usenet #newsgroups #platformwars #soundcards #audio #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #wavetable #chiptune #MODs #tracker #DOS #PC #gaming #computinghistory #GUS #AWE32 #soundblaster
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I tried out the Game Blaster (Creative Music System) mode on my PicoGUS recently and put a video together to share my experience. Check it out!
#msdos #vintagepc #pico #soundblaster #retropc #vgm #gameblaster #retrogames #pcgaming
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If I decide to make my life needlessly more complicated by wanting to add a dedicated #soundcard to my #linux #thinkstation (about 10 years old) - what card or brand is recommended? Do I just buy a modern day #soundblaster or do I chase down something else?
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I suddenly realized, ChatGPT was like a supercharged Dr. Sbaitso from my high school years. #creativelabs #soundblaster
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Jason Storm in Space Chase - Suburbia on Sound Blaster 16 CT2830 (YMF262) #DOSGaming #YMF262 #SoundBlaster
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I'm avoiding a tough soldering job on the giant #GravisGamePad project, so here's my home-made, proof-of-concept #Audigy #Gameport
adapter - soon, owners of a #CreativeLabs #SoundBlaster SB0240, SB0350, SB0360, SB0900 or SB0090 card (I *think* this covers the compatibility list) will have somewhere to plug in their Gravis GamePads*!*Other brands of gamepad are available.
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The tech pioneer behind Sound Blaster has passed away
Singaporean entrepreneur Sim Wong Hoo founded Creative Technology in 1981.#SoundBlaster #CreativeLabs #TechNostagia https://www.engadget.com/tech-pioneer-sim-wong-hoo-sound-blaster-dies-151258136.html
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Sim Wong Hoo, founder of Sound Blaster maker Creative Labs, has died
#SimWongHoo #SoundBlaster #CreativeLabs
https://www.pcgamer.com/sim-wong-hoo-founder-of-sound-blaster-maker-creative-labs-has-died/
