Every retro sound device on an 8-bit card
Finding sound cards for your retro PC setup is hard. Used sound cards can easily run you more than $100.
PicoGUS is an 8-bit ISA sound card and CD-ROM drive emulation on the Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040 microcontroller. PicoGUS can emulate a wide variety of sound cards as connect your old IDE CD-ROM drives:
- Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) – the primary focus of PicoGUS, hence the name
- Sound Blaster 16 (OPL3) / Sound Blaster Pro 2 (OPL3) / AdLib (OPL2)
- MPU-401 (with intelligent mode) – outputs MIDI data on 3.5mm MIDI TRS connector
- Tandy 3-voice
- CMS/Game Blaster
- Game port joystick
- Panasonic/MKE CD-ROM
It’s not quite perfect (see the compatibility list), but
Available at Joe’s Computer Museum Shop for $50