It’s been a long time since the last homebrew sound card we had on this channel! LABS is back with another iteration of the Blaster Board called the “Sonic Buster 8”. One improvement is that it now uses a genuine OPL3 chip for the FM music. Furthermore it is all SMD components and hence very compact and will fit also in cases where space is an issue. But is it worth the money? How does it hold up against other homebrew sound cards?
Tag: DOS
Let’s Code MS DOS 0x24: Low Level Keyboard Programming
Getting input from the keyboard can be as easy as calling the getch() function. But for games we need a better solution. For games on MS DOS machines you need quick, unbuffered input. To simply get the state of keypresses we need to talk to the keyboard controller directly. Let’s have a look at how that’s done!