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Open-source Beavis Ultrasound recreates legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card

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A new open-source project called Beavis Ultrasound aims to recreate the legendary Gravis Ultrasound ISA sound card. The project provides complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and reverse-engineered GAL logic for an IDE CD-ROM interface. This faithful hardware-level reproduction requires users to source a rare AMD AM78C201 InterWave chip, and the developer has not yet tested a fabricated board. AI

IMPACT Niche hardware project with minimal direct impact on AI operations.

RANK_REASON Open-source hardware remake of a vintage component, not a new frontier release or significant industry move.

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Open-source Beavis Ultrasound recreates legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Mark Tyson ·

    Legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card gets new open-source clone — Beavis Ultrasound remake includes complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and more

    There’s a new remake of the legendary Gravis Ultrasound ISA soundcard on the block with the arrival of the open source Beavis Ultrasound project.

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card gets new open-source clone — Beavis Ultrasound remake includes complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and mor

    Legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card gets new open-source clone — Beavis Ultrasound remake includes complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and more There’s a new remake of the legendary Gravis Ultrasound ISA soundcard on the block with the arrival of the open source…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/legendary-gravis-ultra… tomshardware.com/pc-components

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