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Post #2433940

2026-04-25 21:35 UTC

today’s thrifting find 😎 my heart warms at its sight after 35+ years. my best friends got this gem with their family 386 DX25 when I was a kid. i wrote several stories about this exact card in my memoir about the 90s ms-dos era: Mages & Modems. thank you to wonderful folks who have read it and told me stories of your own SBAITSO.EXE exploits. 😅 for those who have yet to read it: https://tomotama.com/books i can’t wait to get it home and try it out. it’s a CT1350B for all you fellow OPL2 synth nerds. #msdos #dosgaming #books #retrogaming

Replies (6)

  • @karadoc@aus.social 2026-04-25 21:53

    @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net the sound card has a joystick port?

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  • @fergycool@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 22:40

    @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I read halfway through on holiday a few weeks ago. Loving the book. I empathised from the first mention of a non centering joystick (for me on a BBC!).

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  • @ieure@retro.social 2026-04-26 00:23

    @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I also had that exact card. Saved my allowance and lawn mowing money until I could buy it at the computer store next to the arcade in the little mall in the little town I grew up in.

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  • @gregly@retro.pizza 2026-04-26 02:02

    @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social OH MY GOD that’s an amazing find. I bought one of those back when I was pestering my dad for an Adlib card. He saw the Sound Blaster and was like “this is cheaper and looks better”, and he was right. God, I wish I still had that original card!

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  • @antdude@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 02:05

    @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net my king nought me the original sb for my ibm ps/2 model 30 286 10 mhz pc

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  • @rvdbijl@oldbytes.space 2026-04-26 13:08

    @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net in the early days I wished I could afford one, but I couldn’t. So I soldered a homebrew Covox together with a bunch of resistors. And then tried to find any game that would support it. Besides just playing MOD files I downloaded off BBSs.

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