{"id":16323,"date":"2026-05-21T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16323"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:37:29","slug":"every-retro-sound-device-on-an-8-bit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16323","title":{"rendered":"Every retro sound device on an 8-bit card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding sound cards for your retro PC setup is hard. Used sound cards can easily run you more than $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/polpo\/picogus\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/polpo\/picogus\">PicoGUS<\/a> is an 8-bit ISA sound card and CD-ROM drive emulation on the Raspberry Pi Pico&#8217;s RP2040 microcontroller. PicoGUS can emulate a wide variety of sound cards as connect your old IDE CD-ROM drives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gravis Ultrasound (GUS)\u00a0&#8211; the primary focus of PicoGUS, hence the name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound Blaster 16\u00a0(OPL3) \/\u00a0Sound Blaster Pro 2\u00a0(OPL3) \/\u00a0AdLib\u00a0(OPL2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MPU-401 (with intelligent mode)\u00a0&#8211; outputs MIDI data on 3.5mm MIDI TRS connector<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tandy 3-voice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMS\/Game Blaster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game port joystick<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Panasonic\/MKE CD-ROM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not quite perfect (see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/polpo\/picogus\/wiki\/Compatibility-list\">compatibility list<\/a>), but <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm-1.com\/product\/picogus-v2\/\">Joe&#8217;s Computer Museum Shop<\/a>\u00a0for $50<\/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\/okSBZJwqVb8?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<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\/08IPnmvuatw?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s RP2040 microcontroller. PicoGUS can emulate a wide variety of sound cards as connect your old IDE CD-ROM drives: It&#8217;s not quite perfect (see the\u00a0compatibility list), but Available at Joe&#8217;s Computer Museum Shop\u00a0for $50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16323","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-4fh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323","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=16323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16324,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions\/16324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}