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"If it didn't play Doom, no one was gonna want to use it." You can visit https://patreon.com/polymatt to support my work and get early, ad-free access to my videos as well as other perks! The Gravis Ultrasound is a long sought after card from the early to mid 1990s for it's unmatched ability to generate realistic audio with it's wavetable synthesis. Not many were made, not many games were supported but it earned a cult following. Fast forward to 2023 and they're almost impossible to find at a reasonable price. Enter Ian Scott a.k.a polpo. He took his #raspberrypi project to the next level and built a faithful reproduction of the Gravis Ultrasound card... and more. Let's catch up with Ian and see what the genesis of the project is and what might be next on his radar. Buy the PicoGUS!: https://www.tindie.com/products/polpo/picogus-sound-card-emulator-for-isa-retro-pcs/ How to find Ian: GitHub - https://github.com/polpo/picogus Site - https://polpo.org Mastodon - bitbang.social/@polpo Some of Ian's favorite tracks: - Starshine by Purple Motion https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=60693 - Te-2rx by md https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=59546 - Lonely Planet by Basehead https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=48735 - Alterraid by Dune https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=182925 - krunk'd by Hoffman https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=175221 - Something Old Something New Something Borrowed Something Blue by esau http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=87208 - Neocolora by SoDa7 and Virgill https://demozoo.org/music/322703/ Chapters: 00:12 - Intro #retrojanuary 01:09 - PicoGUS Demo 01:50 - Meet Ian 02:41 - Getting recognized 04:20 - The genesis of the PicoGUS 08:00 - The "Very Dumb Prototype" 13:10 - Reverse engineering 16:04 - The documentation is wrong 17:44 - Non-standards 20:34 - Retro favorites 25:30 - Learning vs. problem solving 27:42 - Finding community 37:20 - Gatekeeping 43:41 - Wrapping up Intro & Outro Music: Escape Velocity by gusse / Digisonix https://soundcloud.com/gusse_dsx Used with direct permission from the author
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