So you want a Gravis Ultrasound?

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The holy grail of PC soundcards include a few special devices. But one of them is surely the Gravis Ultrasound. It allowed mixing of 32 independent channels with (near) CD quality. This could be used for sound effects or music, and was particularly popular in the demo scene. But also game classics such as Jazz Jackrabbit, One Must Fall, Epic Pinball and Pinball Fantasies used the card to great effect. However today an original Ultrasound costs anywhere between 200-400 EUR, which is a bit too expensive in my opinion. So we try out a cheap homebrew clone! Meet the GUSar lite!

Update: I had to mute parts of the video due to a content match on some of Future Crew‘s music. Sorry for that. If anyone has truly free tracker music I would love to use it in videos such as this.

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GUSar Lite: https://chipkin.ru/product/sobrannaya-plata-gusar-lite/
Argus, which inspired the GUSar: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=42431
Unisound: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=72553
EMU386S: http://survpc.tripod.com/emu386/index.htm



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