I will add, this wouldn’t have been possible without the good folks at VOGONS. This card needed a custom ROM to not just be “yet another Windows 95 sound card.”

@craig1black The ultrasound experience for me is demoscene prods, and Jazz Jackrabbit… @lazygamereviews did a direct comparison with SB and the difference is striking, even to my tin ears

@maxospeedout @lazygamereviews I feel there is just a really sliver of time (maybe 1992 to 1995) where it was better, and even then, it's so niche because it brings with it so many compatibility issues with older titles.

@craig1black Can’t argue with your experience with the Gus, but I worked on the Gus PNP/ Interwave software back when I worked at eTek/Forte. SBOS for blaster emulation was never perfect, but we did the best to map FM specs to midi patches. Pretty amazing tech if you think about it.

@yorgle Yeah it is quite the hack. Emulating hardware in software is impressive on these vintage machine. Unfortunately though, the emulation can result in some horrible sounding FM emulation just because it’s not always FM only for music.

@craig1black I just snagged this gem yesterday. Can’t wait to restore it

@craig1black You could go a slightly different direction with the Disney Sound Source. :)

@craig1black I had a GUS back in the day! Phenomenal card!! But I do recall struggling a lot with it under Windows (95 and on), so I eventually gave up on it! 😢

@craig1black Its a great card to use next to a Sound Blaster Pro 2 or clone, or even a 16. You'll be better off just using the GUS on the games that support it natively, and forget about its Sound Blaster emulation.

@craig1black So the ratio of surface mounted components to sound quality doesn’t matter much?

@craig1black The thing with gravis cards the samples have to been perfect. Doom is a perfect example of the Ultragravis being superior to sound blaster.

@craig1black IMHO, the best GUS experience is a GUS Ace + a SB16

@craig1black Not an uncommon assessment. It's the ultimate nostalgia card, in that if you didn't have a specific use for it back in the day, then you're very unlikely to fall in love with it today.

@craig1black Ther is a reason I refused to venture away from SB cards. They just worked always. Even the pci audigy in win xp with a dos boot disk worked just fine.

@craig1black I had one of these in the late 90s and it was such a weird card. I was never happy with its GUS emulation. Original GUS card for demos and trackers + a SoundBlaster for games is the ultimate combo. That’s what I have in my mid-90s PC build!

@craig1black It s a nice board if you want to play à 16 channel module on a 8088 at 4Mhz :)