In what may be the beginning of a more substantial effort, I recently decided to start tinkering with the Ad Lib Gold. For a design from 1991, I have to say that it had some interesting design ideas, some of which I don't think were ever adopted anywhere else; not even Creative bothered to steal them.

I'm not offering anything particularly compelling yet, but for anyone who would care to try it, a small application is attached. If it works, it should display some information, then play a simple test clip. It would be interesting to know what you see and/or hear. I don't think it displays one critical detail: press q when you have had enough and want to quit.

It wasn't specifically designed to support them, but it may even partially work on some of the other non-Ad Lib GSS cards of the 1990s. If it does at all, the resources it claims should be nonsensical.

It would also be interesting to know whether the card you are using has a YMZ263 or YMZ263B. I think all genuine, shipping Ad Lib cards of the time used the former. I don't own any hardware with the B chip, but I suspect there are some behavioural differences between the two. At some point, that might be an interesting thing to investigate.

A brief summary of your system configuration would also be appreciated.

It is important to recommend that you not use headphones. Cheap powered speakers with the volume set to a modest level are recommended, just in case the only thing you get out of it is loud noise.