SirNickity wrote:

CMS in some form is not really hard to come by. The chips are available cheap on Ebay, and you can just pop those into an OG SB 1.5. The SB 2.0 requires a glue logic chip that has been cloned.

The original CMS card -- i.e., not a Sound Blaster, but aka the Game Blaster -- that's an expensive card. I saw it going for around $1000 last time one showed up on Ebay. Whoever pays that much, I hope you find some happiness in owning the original. It's not a complicated card (can be cloned easily enough, if one were to bother), and doesn't differ much from a SB with CMS chips. (The real card has some auto-detection magic that is not present in the SB.)

Someone bothered 😀

MUS-1099 GameBlaster Sound Card

https://github.com/gemedetpaps/MUS-1099

Well, that loose Ad Lib sold last night for a touch over $100. I actually meant to bid on that one and it just slipped my mind. That's still reasonable, IMO.