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ESS ESS1868 Gold-32 with DREAM sam9233
ASUS 3DexPlorer PCI-AXP201An excellent sound card on the ESS Maestro-1 chip with support for working in MS-DOS (unlike SB Live! the SB Pro emulator for AXP-201 does not require any additional drivers or memory managers), as well as the use of loadable Soundbanks in pure DOS for table wave synthesis. download >>Aztech Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3DThis is the last card produced by Aztech that is *not* PnP. It does have a wavetable header. Chipset: AZT-2316/A/R Wavefront ICS (3rd gen chip), DAC: Yamaha YAC512, Wavetable Interface: Yes, WaveBlaster-compatible, Plug & Play: No.Pretty good card that is installed in my 386DX-40. The choice in its favor was made due to the possibility of installing a Midi-daughter, the presence of an IDE connector for connecting a CD-ROM, as well as proprietary Yamaha chips. All in all, this sound card will probably satisfy all the basic needs of a Retro PC builder. download >> CREATIVE Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (CD)A copy of the original Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 (SB0100 & CT4780). Installation under Windows, however, this also installs the DOS sound card driver.CREATIVE - a modern interpretation!Drivers (by Daniel Kawakami) for iconic sound cards from Creative: X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI/HD/PCI-E/Prelude/Forte/HomeTheater HD/Titanium; Audigy Value/SE/LS/2/2 ZS/4/5/RX; Live! 24-bit; Rocketfish; SB 5.1 VX; Onkyo Wavio SE-300PCIE for their use in modern operating systems like Windows 10/11. No compatibility issues with your old sound cards in modern systems, use EAX in retro games on your PC natively. This is a modification of classic drivers with full control of your card, including control of MIDI sound banks. This software/driver pack is unofficial, not supported by Creative Labs. Use it at your own risk. For 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP.Crystal CX4235 (or based on the same chip)The Crystal CX4235 sound chip is compatible with Adlib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro and Windows Sound System. It is a late era ISA Sound Card and uses PnP. The FM implementation is not very good, some notes are off and there is some sort of distortion going on as well. The software is simple, but covers all the bases. You can manually assign resources by editing CWDMIX.INI and then initialising the card with CWDMIX.EXE /O. The archive contains drivers for DOS and Windows. If you want pure DOS, just unzip to "C:\CRYSTAL" folder for example. From the second link you can download a package containing a software wave synthesis driver for audio cards on a Crystal chip for Windows OS.DIAMOND Monster Sound MX300 (CD)The MX300 PCI audio card gives you fully immersive 3D interactive audio. Using Aureal Semiconductor’s A3D 2.0 technology, Monster Sound pinpoints every individual sound in 3D space for incredibly realistic gaming and listening experiences. Monster Sound MX300 boosts your video entertainment with cinema-quality DVD, Dolby® Digital sound, and MP3 tools for fiery digital Internet audio. download >>ESS AudioDrive ES1868 / ES1868FESS AudioDrive ISA sound cards are one of the best Sound Blaster clone cards. The chipset is highly integrated, and the ES1868F, for example, offers Sound Blaster Pro 2 compatibility, has mixer inputs for line-in, mic, CD, and wavetable, and is a very quiet card. There are jumpers on the board to enable/disable the amplifier. The DOS program is beginner friendly, just run INSTALL and answer a few questions. Click here for the ESS AudioDrive ES1868 manual.
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Windows 3x driver >> Windows 95 driver >> Windows 98 driver >> ESS 1868, 1869 + SoftWT driver >> OPTi 82C929A MAD16 ProAny sound card with the 82C929A chip on it is really meant for use in pure DOS or alongside another sound card in Windows. The MAD16 Pro is compatible with Sound Blaster Pro, WSS, has MPU-401 compatible game port (UART mode) and supports M-CD.Click here for the OPTi chipset brochure from 1994 or download manual. Turtle Beach Santa Cruz drivers & software (CD)One of the best sound cards on the PCI bus. Based on the Cirrus Logic SoundFusion (aka Crystal 4630) DSP. It featured four analog channel outputs, a line input and microphone input are included on the back panel. Also included is a connector TB dubbed the "VersaJack." The VersaJack has multiple functions selectable by software including digital SPDIF output, a second analog input, analog output or 5th and 6th speaker outputs. This card also supported an open source software based EAX. download >>Yamaha Audician 32 Plus (CD)One of the best sound cards on the ISA bus. FM synthesizer: OPL3. Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and Windows Sound System compatible. MPU-401 UART via game port. On the Yamaha Audician driver disk is the drivers for DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, and 98. When you install these for Windows, it automatically installs the DOS drivers as well. On the contained CD there is also a separate DOS installer under the DOS folder, where you can run install.exe which will configure your config.sys and autoexec.bat files for you.SBEMU Release_1.0.0-beta.5In the original DOS era, you needed an additional sound card (like the SoundBlaster16) to play audio and digital music in games like DOOM. But AC97 replaced add-on cards, and older DOS games don’t play well with AC97. SBEMU provides SoundBlaster emulation with OPL3 for AC97, and may be a way to play classic DOS games on new PC hardware. Supported sound blaster emulation: SB, SBpro, SBpro2 (SBpro with OPL3), SB16.Installer config examples:
AUTOEXEC.BAT download >> UNISOUND universal driver v0.80aVOGONS User JazeFox has been hard at work with a project called Unisound. This allows old Plug & Play (PnP) sound cards to easily setup and initialize in DOS based computers without having to go through the hassle of tracking down specific drivers for those devices that may or may not still exist. The result of JazeFox is this all-in-one tool for configuring and initializing an ISA slot sound card in DOS. Detailed instructions in the UNISOUND.TXT file from the archive. download >> |
Very rare ESS card based on AudioDrive ES1868F chip with dream SAM9233 chip
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