The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone

Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by rasz on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:38PM (#25038022)

Sadly extracted firmware was never published :(

There is another project, with reverse engineered firmware rewritten to ATmega328P (of arduino fame): "BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card" https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=61098

Offers vastly improved sound quality "idle noise level is around -94dB RMS". Firmware is available for download, but in binary only form.

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Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by mmastrac on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:54AM (#25060033)

Isn't it just this? https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker/blob/master/firmware/...

EDIT: I think this is the Chinese ROM. It doesn't match the disassembly snippets from his video.

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Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by rasz on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:22PM (#25060366)

Its in Intel HEX format so you cant see clearly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX

You have to convert to binary first

    xxd -r -p sb.hex > sb.bin

and then look at strings

    strings sb.bin

    lot of garbage
    (C)19k
    92 Anchor Electronics Co.,

This is some Taiwanese clone schlae is talking about in his presentation. There is another SB 1.5 clone firmware floating around for "ATI Stereo F/X ISA Sound Card" dumped by MAME people https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Num... https://archive.org/download/MESS-0.151.BIOS.ROMs/MESS-0.151... MAME guys also dumped SB16 firmware and its available (ct1741_v413), but afaik there are no public Creative SB/SBPro dumps.

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