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 cure on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @09:02AM (#25058444)

> Fascinating video that answered my question about why bother replicating 30 year old hardware. I had no idea that vintage hardware was going for such high prices.

I guess it depends on exactly which hardware. Looks like a SB16 can be had for $20 on ebay, or $40 'new' in shrink wrapped box.

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Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by tssva on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:15AM (#25059021)

The hardware of different SB16 cards can vary significantly. For example the earliest versions used a Yamaha OPL3 chip and later ones used software emulation. This is why on ebay SB16 listings generally contain the specific board model number and not just Sound Blaster 16. Differing models have differing values. Some fairly cheap and rarer models more expensive.

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Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by csharptwdec19 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @09:44AM (#25058781)

SB16s were fairly common so I'm not surprised about that. The Niche cards or later ISA SBs (thinking AWE) tend to be a bit more valuable.

It's been a while since I looked at the market, but I know that Gravis and Ensoniq cards tend to be a bit more valued since they were less common but in many ways superior to the SB offerings.

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