High Quality Reproduction AdLib Sound Card, OPL2, Circa 1990
Designed by TrilobytES Retro Store in Spain
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The sound that defined an era is back. If you grew up during the golden age of the PC, you already know what this means: FM synthesis. YM3812. The original BA-BOOM. The soundtrack of DOS, exactly as …
Read More…If you grew up during the golden age of the PC, you already know what this means: FM synthesis. YM3812. The original BA-BOOM. The soundtrack of DOS, exactly as it was. And if you lived through it… you know that no retro-PC is complete without an AdLib.
Today, finding an original AdLib is super difficult. So we did what any hardware purist would have wanted in 1990: a flawless, faithful, fully functional 1:1 reproduction of the card that became the true standard for PC audio.
A completely new reproduction of the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card, the first sound card to become the de facto standard for game developers on the IBM PC.
If a game said “AdLib Supported”, this is the card it expected to find.
Because original AdLib cards rarely appear, and when they do, they’re expensive, corroded, damaged, or dead.
So we recreated the experience exactly as if you were buying one brand-new in 1990:
This is as close as you can get to “opening the box in 1990”… except now you know it will last for decades.
Because it’s not just a clone. It’s a historical tribute, built to last, faithful to the original, and 100% compatible with:
and thousands of DOS games that relied on AdLib as their primary sound device.
This card doesn’t try to “improve” anything. It sounds EXACTLY like it did in the early ’90s— with the tone, noise, color, and FM personality we all remember.
Ad Lib, Inc. defined what PC games sounded like. Their engineering set the foundation for all MS-DOS audio that followed. The YM3812 remains one of the most iconic sound chips ever produced.
If you build, restore, or revive retro PCs… you simply cannot go without an AdLib. Originals are nearly extinct. This clone exists so the experience can live on.
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