New Old Sound cards
Retro gaming has a solid community – even in the PC world. Prices of old hardware keeps going up as supply of working components goes down as time goes on. But would you be surprised to hear that people are out there making new components for these old machines? I already mentioned the recreated Covox Speech Thing, but there are even re-creations of Adlib, SoundBlaster, and other early sound cards. Enter the Orpheus ISA 16 sound card that can emulate just about any 90’s era sound card perfectly.
Dreamblaster available for purchase here: https://www.serdashop.com/RetroSoundcards
Update: There’s other makers of clone cards too:
- Other cards I’ve written about
- Erik Larsson’s clones
- Snark Barker – make your own Soundblaster 1.0
- Keropi & Marmes Retro Computing – Makes recreation Midi, Adlib, and MegaCard multi emulator