News Retro TechTuber Adds Ancient PC ISA Slot via Modern TPM Header

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Retro YouTuber TheRasteri fits an old ISA-slot SoundBlaster 16 to a motherboard TPM header to enjoy glorious DOS gaming audio.

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[TerryLaze]

Finally a reason for the TPM header...

Also, a longer video with some more depth is in the pipeline, likely addressing any configuration files (autoxec.bat and config.sys editing?) or other fiddly things that might need sorting out.

No, those files should be standard, unless there is need for a driver, and if there is a need for a driver he would have to release that.
The big question here is if it needs some special bios that treats the LPC as ISA or if it will work on anything.
Even on mobos with ISA slots there are tons of compatibility issues due to bios.

 

[tim1724]

Cool hack. Unfortunately a lot of newer motherboards use SPI-based TPM headers, rather than the LPC version needed to make this work.

 

[suryasans]

Newer hardwares are becoming more impossible to enable the legacy ISA DMA feature. https://flaterco.com/kb/ISA_chipsets.html