{"id":11539,"date":"2024-07-27T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:21:46","slug":"isa-sound-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11539","title":{"rendered":"Recreation ISA Sound boards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Larsson <a href=\"https:\/\/electronics.dose.se\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/electronics.dose.se\/\">makes a bunch of clone ISA audio boards<\/a> such as the Gravis Ultrasound, 8-bit ISA Soundblaster, MCA Sound Blaster, Disney Sound Source. He sells them on Tindie for pretty reasonable prices considering the ebay prices for the original boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"210\" data-attachment-id=\"11540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=11540\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?fit=1542%2C506&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1542,506\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?fit=640%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3-1024x336.png?resize=640%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?resize=1024%2C336&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C98&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?resize=768%2C252&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?resize=1536%2C504&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?resize=604%2C198&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?w=1542&amp;ssl=1 1542w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/06\/image-3.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good review of his 8-bit Soundblaster card:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQjWDRw3lDE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These aren&#8217;t the only sound card clones. Turns out there are lots of others too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8390\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8390\">Covox Speech thing and Disney Sound source clones<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8655\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8655\">Orpheus ISA sound card clone<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serdashop.com\/RetroSoundcards\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.serdashop.com\/RetroSoundcards\">DreamBlaster<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11543\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11543\">Snark Barker &#8211; make your own Soundblaster 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmidi.eu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pcmidi.eu\/\">Keropi &amp; Marmes Retro Computing<\/a> &#8211; Makes recreation Midi, Adlib, and MegaCard multi emulator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/electronics.dose.se\/\">https:\/\/electronics.dose.se\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tindie.com\/products\/kdehl\/8-bit-isa-sound-blaster-15-clone-with-cms\/\">https:\/\/www.tindie.com\/products\/kdehl\/8-bit-isa-sound-blaster-15-clone-with-cms\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/texelec.com\/\">https:\/\/texelec.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Larsson makes a bunch of clone ISA audio boards such as the Gravis Ultrasound, 8-bit ISA Soundblaster, MCA Sound Blaster, Disney Sound Source. He sells them on Tindie for pretty reasonable prices considering the ebay prices for the original boards. Here&#8217;s a good review of his 8-bit Soundblaster card: These aren&#8217;t the only sound card clones. Turns out there are lots of others too: Links:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-retro-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-307","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13559,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}