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Sound Blaster emulation on hardware-level (μC level)?

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First post, by Jo22

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Hi everyone,

There's just a quick question that came to my mind this night/morning.
I wonder if, -since PC/XT emulator writers are so obsessed with cycle-exact emulation of that darn i8088- , something similar happens with emulating the Sound Blaster DSP.

Say, emulating the 8051 microcontroller of the 8-Bit Sound Blaster models.
Are there any software projects that involve cycle-accurate emulation of such a microcontroller in software and then run the original Creative binary code?
Or a compatible code used by no-name Sound Blaster clones?

Again, it's just a question for sake of curiosity. Not a criticism.
A high-level emulation is probably good enough, it simply makes me wonder.
Because internal ISA modems and early Sound Blasters are essentially single-board computers with their own brains.

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Jo22

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Reply 1 of 3, by mkarcher

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MAME contains an incomplete attempt of a hardware-level emulation of the SB16. That code is usually not used, because it also has a quite usable high-level soundblaster 16 emulator.

Reply 2 of 3, by Jo22

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Ah, that's interesting to know. The SB16 is probably more worth it all in all, as well, I suppose.
Thank you very much for your information. ^^

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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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