One thing that puzzles me about the Port Blaster is why Creative thought they could run the device off the parallel port power anyway. You can barely make a SoundJr. run off of it. There is no way the Port Blaster would have run on it. I also think this is strange. It's not that difficult to add …

I wonder if this device's Sound Blaster emulation driver works like OPL2LPT's TSR driver. Considering how it requires at least 80386 to work, a memory manager like EMM386, and it doesn't work in protected mode, I think this might be the case. And if it does, maybe a game patcher could also be made. …

In any case, while looking up stuff, I cam across a list that includes some parallel port sound devices I had not heard of before: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216399/ Antex AudioPort - Antex Electronics $389 Parallel 1 lb, 7 oz. Port-Able Sound Plus - DSP Solutions, Inc. $198 …

I looked through the drivers for the other two out there, the Media Vision Audio Port, and the Street Sound Parallel Sound Card, and neither one of them offered SoundBlaster compatibility in DOS. Can confirm, I own a StreetSound Parallel Sound Card, it's Win3.1/9x only. Also it doesn't have any …

Unfortunately, the GPS part is likely an ASIC, which is a completely custom setup, and the TI is a modification of a stock TI part, and there is no way to know what the modifications are. So, it's basically two parts that are not sourceable outside of the original hardware, especially the ASIC. …

Man I wish someone could recreate this device (or at least it's board) with modern components. Both DS311 and DS301 are extremely rare, and that's unfortunate, because, unlike DS201, this is basically Sound Blaster on a parallel port. If you want sound on your old DOS laptop (or, perhaps, if you are …