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Crystal 4237b/IPLAW35 sound card won't work on my 286

VCFed about 3 months ago

I have purchased a [Crystal 4237b]-based soundcard called (if I have understood things correctly) Aopen IPLAW35 (seen in action [here] for my 286. Finding [this Vogon thread] through googling, I clicked my way on to the manufacturer's website, where t …

Help identifying a sound card

VCFed about 3 months ago

Recently acquired a Compaq 4/66i running Windows 3.1 and it happens to have a card which I cannot identify. Looks to have a OPL2 chip, can I assume this is a clone of sorts? Manuals, drivers, or suggestions would be nice. Thanks! …

Which 3rd sound card 486 DX2 66

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello, Working on a killer 486 ISA VLB system for ultimate sound. I have an Adlib gold, GUS clone and need a 3rd sound board to host a MT32 Duaghter Board. This is because the gusnwill have a dream daughter board, the adlib gold will have the surround d …

486 era drives, etc.

VCFed about 4 months ago

All were recently pulled from a working system: - TEAC FD-55GFR 1.2MB 5.25" FLOPPY DISK DRIVE $39 - Teac FD-235HF 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive $14 - Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 ISA sound card $39 - Wearnes CDD-110 2X CD-ROM Drive with contro …

Hackintosh on old Intel Core 2 system for audio stuff

VCFed about 4 months ago

It's an Intel DQ35JO board with nVidia GT9500 (I think) and maudio delta 2496 PCI sound card, SSD storage. So I thought about giving it some new life, should be quite good as a recording/MIDI rig, as I've used this comp as a DAW back then. Aside from ins …

How does audio on the TRS-80 Model 1 work?

VCFed about 4 months ago

Good evening all, I'm trying to figure out how audio works on the TRS 80 Model 1 from a software perspective. I don't have a model 1, but I'd like to understand the theory behind generating tones via the cassette port so that I may apply the same method …
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Trying to get Space Quest III Pirates of Pestulon working on my Compaq Portable 1

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi There ! For some reason, I cannot get SQ3 working on my Compaq portable. I have MS-DOS 6.22 loaded, no TSR. I have 640kb of memory using a SixPack Plus card When launching the game, I get a blinking cursor and that's it. No error, no sound. Unable to C …

486 Laptop PCMCIA options

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi, I would like to know what PCMCIA options work under DOS on a 486 laptop (Compaq 4 LTE) Will a sound card work? Floppy drive? I'm not interested in network, so what else would make sense to look for? …
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A warning about the "improved ACI" PCB confusion (or scams)

Apple Fritter about 6 months ago

Hi fans - it has been brought to my attention that some sellers on Ebay (and possibly elsewhere) advertise "improved" ACI PCBs for sale. Here is my WARNING to you: Do not confuse these "improved" ACI PCBs with the "Gen1" or "Gen2" improved ACI PCBs whic …
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My Zenith Z-Star EX

VCFed about 6 months ago

My Zenith Z-Star EX Sound card It has is on the Parallel port from Serda shop, not the best option as not all games or Windows 3.x, but since the system has no built in option other then PC speaker, its a good option, good sound. It has a 512Mb SD card …

Hello from Ohio

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello all. My name is Joe and I currently am working on a Zenith Z-Star EX laptop, I have an OPL2LPT sound card on the parallel port from Serda Shop, it's not perfect as the drivers aren't always supported by DOS games, sadly I didn't get the chance to tr …

Brackets for expansion cards

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hi I have several cards that are missing the brackets to attach them to the PC case in the expansion slots and I was wondering if there is somewhere where we can get a specific one or order without paying some absurd ebay price... I know there are a myri …

ISA Sound Card with IDE controller causing issues

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hello all, I'm currently working on a Edom/Wintech MA022 Rev. A motherboard. It has an AMD 386DX-40, Cyrix FasMath 387, 8MB of RAM (30 pin SIMM), Trident VGA card, etc. My current issue is that any time I install a sound card with an IDE controller on it …

DEC Sound

VCFed about 7 months ago

Someone was showing me a Qbus card on the weekend that was quite simply a sound card and without getting to see any technical details how exactly would you make that work? Just blast bits at the chip and make it beep-boop? like, say I build a board with a …
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What is the identity of this sound card?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I was curious about the sound of the CS4236 chipset. So I have a sound card that I'm looking to buy from a second hand shop. But it has an AV out port. What does the AV out on this sound card do? If anyone knows, please share the information. Thank …

The PicoGUS: An ingenious multifunction ISA sound card

Adrian's Digital Basement about 8 months ago

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Creative Soundblaster AWE32, ISA sound card

VCFed about 8 months ago

Creative Soundblaster AWE32 Value card for ISA bus computers.​​CT3... 1996 FM Synth Chip: CT1978 (CQM chip) Wavetable Synth Chip: CT1971 (EMU-8000) and CT1972 (EMU-8011 ROM) Plug & Play: Yes Various internal headers for i …

MSX, Colecovision, Sega games on CPC

CPCwiki about 9 months ago

Seems quite a lot of ports between the 3 mentioned computers recently because they all share the same graphics cards and some the same soundchips.  For colecovision they even have an AY sound card to make porting easier.What is the easiest solution fo …

eBay buyer using freight forwarder and lying?

VCFed about 10 months ago

I sold a AdLib card today, and I had the shipping locations as USA only. Then after the auction ended and I was preparing to ship the item I noticed that the buyer was having the sound card shipped to a freight forwarder in California called Shipito (they …

General Old Hardware • Building a Win 98/DOS Gaming Machine advice.

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi folks I've recently had the urge to relive my childhood and build a Win98/DOS machine. I'm going for games like Raptor, lucas arts games, DOOM, Duke all the way up to Unreal and Half Life but before Deus Ex. For any game released 2000+ I'll do a Win …

ReActiveMicro Phasor Sound crashes / freezes

Apple Fritter about 10 months ago

I have an Apple IIe Enhanced, with a ReActiveMicro Universal PSU installed, an 80col/64k ram expansion card, and I am using a floppyEmu on a 5.25" 655-0101-D controller card (slot 7). There is also a SuperSerial Card installed (slot 2) and it works success …

System Specs • 386 DX-40 multi-sound card build (5 sound cards!)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Filename386 Setup.jpgFile size757.16 KiBViews251 viewsCPU: Am386DX-40MB: BC3486F w/ 128k cacheRAM: 8 MBDisk Drives: 3.5" and 5.25" Floppy drivesCD Drive: Mitsumi 4x CD-ROMFixed Storage: 256 MB Cisco Systems CompactFlash + CF-IDE AdapterController Card: Bi …

Sound • MS-DOS drivers for CT4700

Vogons about 10 months ago

Please help me find the drivers for a Creative CT4700 PCI sound card for MS-DOS.Statistics: Posted by vico — Yesterday, 21:36 — Replies 0 — Views 42 …

Software • Sound in DOS window under Win3.1

Vogons about 10 months ago

This has probably been asked a million times but I can't find the right search terms...Is it possible to have sound in Win3.1 and its MS-DOS subsystem/prompt?I vaguely remember back in the dark ages that if I wanted to play MS-DOS games with sound from wi …

General Old Hardware • PSU Watts - How much is too much?

Vogons about 10 months ago

I (very) recently started up a 486 project; basically I'm buying a bunch of parts online like the motherboard, graphics card, sound card, etc... all to build myself a nice 486 machine.Currently, I'm looking into PSUs; of course, you can't use a computer w …