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Enthusiast restores two Sound Blaster 16 cards documenting the challenges of vintage hardware repair

Recap: TechTuber Necroware recently completed repairs on two Creative Sound Blaster cards from the 1990s. These repairs come at a time when dedicated sound cards are increasingly rare. Modern ...
Ars Technica

sound blaster 16

I am trying to install a sound blaster 16 bit pci card into an old 90mhz computer with 72mb of ram and running windows 98. <BR><BR>I go to install the drivers for the thing and it goes through the ...
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Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years

Linux developers continue to surprise with their dogged support for retro hardware. A case in point is provided by Takashi Iwai’s recent pull request (h/t Phoron) to implement Creative Sound Blaster ...
Geeky Gadgets

New Creative Sound Blaster X5 launched in the US

Creative has announced the launch of its new Creative Sound Blaster X5 in the USA, and the device will retail for $279.99. The new Sound Blaster X5 supports ASIO 2.2 for low-latency playback and ...
Ars Technica

Line In only playing/recording on Left side (Sound Blaster Z series)

OK, first of all, this exact same setup worked fine with the Realtek on-board Line In. Unfortunately that broke, so I replaced it with the Sound Blaster Z. Basically the setup is a Guitar into a Line ...