Snark Barker: A 100% compatible replica of the famed SB 1.0 soundcard
I had absolutely no idea that the original SoundBlaster had embedded firmware running on an 8051. It never occurred to me that our PCs were loosely-coupled piles of microcomputers all the way back then. (Now I'm off to go learn what that firmware was doing...)<p>Some background I dug up quickly:<p>Snark Barker creator's blog: <a href="http://tubetime.us/index.php/2019/01/19/sound-blaster-1-0-principles-of-operation/" rel="nofollow">http://tubetime.us/index.php/2019/01/19/sound-blaster-1-0-pr...</a><p><a href="http://www.os2museum.com/wp/sound-blaster-the-french-connection/" rel="nofollow">http://www.os2museum.com/wp/sound-blaster-the-french-connect...</a>