• V6533D video chip - capable of 512 colors

• 160 × 100 pixels in 16 colors

• CGA, Hercules, MDA, EGA and Plantronics (CGA 16 colors)

• ISA 8bit

• VRAM: 256 KB

• Only 5 Dip switches.

  • Dipswitch 6=on for autodetect did not work on my CGA2SCART and MY 5151 Monochrome monitor

  • In my experience we must use dipswitch 1 to 4 to set MDA/Hercules, CGA or EGA.

• PEGA utility did not work to change modes.

  • That also meant that one can not choose Plantronics mode 

• Hercules mode works fine with IBM 5151

• 320×200×4 (CGA), 640×200×2 (CGA), 320×200×16 (Plantronics), 640×200×4 (Plantronics), 640×350×16 (EGA), 640×350×2 (EGA mono), 640×480×16 (Paradise extended, TTL), 800×600×16 (Paradise extended, interlaced TTL), 720×540×16 (Paradise extended, rare mode)

• Location: Shelf

• One of the most flexible TTL cards ever made

• Extended modes require a multisync TTL monitor or MCE2HDMI

• CGA, Hercules, MDA, EGA and Plantronics.

• ISA 8bit

• Came with Copam PC, 

• Have printed manual, Online Manual

• Has 6 dipswicthes - just as the manual states

  • Dipswitch 5 and 6=on for autodetect did not work on my CGA2SCART and MY 5151 Monochrome monitor

• PEGA utility worked fine for all modes, including Plantronics.

• Hercules mode works fine with IBM 5151

• Location: Shelf

• Compared to PEGA1A

  • Updated autoswitch logic

  • Later BIOS revision

  • Improved signal stability

• 256 KB VRAM

• CGA, MDA/Hercules, EGA and VGA

  • DOS util for switching modes on the VGA port.

    • Useful for showing "real" CGA on the VGA port

  • Dip switches for switching mode.

• VGA Museum

• Stason

• Vogons

• The colors stopped working in CGA 09.august 2023

  • Fixed. DIP-switches was wrong. For VGA all off except "1"

• Strengths and weaknesses:

  • CGA/EGA and VGA output. Good compatability, slow in DOS and Windows

  • Very low performance and weak signal quality, mainly suitable for early 286 systems or machines where basic VGA compatibility is all that’s needed.

• Location: Box

• ISA 16-bit (should also work in 8bit bus)

• 1MB RAM

• The key benefit of the VGA-16 was its ability to access video memory using 16-bit addressing.

• Links:

  • DOS Days - Video 7 and SPEA 

  • DOS Days - Video 7 and SPEA Downloads 

  • SPEA / Video Seven V7 VGA-16 (600-0122) 

• Strengths and weaknesses:

  • Decent performance  in DOS and adequately  in Windows. 

  • A solid mid‑range VGA card with decent DOS performance and clean analog output, ideal for 286 and 386SX systems where stability matters more than raw speed.

• DOS text is only in B/W image. But most VGA Programs/Games show color. 

• Undocumented setting: SW 1 = ON = Force MultiSync 

• Location: Shelf (because of the BW issue)

• When running Doom in lowest settings on my 386SX-25 i get 12,75 FPS on both Video 7 cards.

• ISA 16-bit (also works perfectly in ISA 8-bit)

• 512 KB of VRAM

• 800 x 600 with 16 colours non-interlaced, or 1024 x 768 with 16 colours in interlaced mode.

• Link: DOS Days - Video 7 VGA 1024i (1989) 

• You can use the Video Seven utility V7VGA.COM to change the card's compatibility mode and ESU.COM to change the mode being used. See the Downloads section for more details.

• This is a good DOS, Windows 3.1, GEM/3 versions 3.0 and 3.1 card. Suitable for XT and AT machines.

• V7VGA.COM - set the card to emulate CGA, Hercules 'half' or Hercules 'full', or pure VGA/extended VGA. You can also enable a screen saver to be active.

• RAMBIOS.SYS - installs the video ROM BIOS into main memory for faster BIOS calls

• Strengths and weaknesses:

  • Lots of RAM, fast in DOS and Windows, but not as fast as cards with co processor.

  • A fast and sharp VGA card with excellent signal quality, well‑suited for 386DX and early 486 machines that benefit from its stronger VRAM timing.

• Location: 386SX-25

• 512KB RAM

• DB9  TTL CGA/EGA/mono and DB15 forAnalog  VGA - both at the same time!

  • VGA-skjerm (DB15)

  • SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 Kommentar

  • OFF – OFF OFF Normal VGA

  • IBM 5153 CGA-skjerm (DB9)

  • SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4

  • ON OFF ON OFF

  • IBM 5154 EGA-skjerm (DB9)

  • SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4

  • ON ON ON OFF

  • IBM 5151 Monochrome / Hercules (DB9)

  • SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4

  • ON OFF ON ON

• VGA and CGA at the same time: SW1 OFF, SW2 OFF, SW3 ON, SW4 OFF

  • I did not get this to work with MCE2HDMI on the 386 DX-40.

• One of the fastest ISA VGA cards with outstanding DOS performance and superb signal clarity, perfect for high‑end 386DX and 486 systems.

• On the TCI 386SX only partially working. 3D Bench = 8.4 but crashes in Doom Demo. AI says this is to be expected.

• On the 386 DX-40 it works perfect. Solid and stable images for capturing using GBS-C Pro and Elgato 4K S.

• ISA 8/16

• Propably only 256 KB VRAM

• Speed on Intel Pentium MMX 233Mhz

  • 3DBench2: 33.1

  • Quake TimeDemo Demo 3 - nosound: 19.4 FPS

  • Moderate DOS speed and acceptable signal quality, fitting best in budget 386SX/386DX builds where compatibility is more important than peak performance.

• Switchable 8 and 16 bit ISA

• 512 KB VRAM

• Support 15Khz Output - VGA 2 SCART

• Manual.

• Speed

  • 3DBench2: 33.1

  • Quake TimeDemo Demo 3 - nosound: 19.4 FPS on Intel Pentium MMX 233Mhz

  • Slow VRAM write performance and noticeably soft signal output, most appropriate for low‑cost 386SX or office‑grade 486 systems rather than gaming setups.

• Location: West PC 1600

• ISA 8/16‑bit compatible

• 256 KB DRAM video memory

• Highly compatible with 286/386 systems 

• A dependable VGA card for early PCs where stability and compatibility matter more than raw performance.

• Slow VRAM write performance and noticeably soft signal output.

• Location: Box

• Chips: p86C911 (gets very hot) and TR9C1710

• Markedted as a high end Windows card.

• Drivers.

• Normally a fast early S3 card with good DOS speed and decent signal quality, best for 386DX/486 systems.

• Not working

  • We get a picture in Black/White -with lots of statics. In 40 column mode we can read some words.

  • I have cleaned it Ultrasonic Cleaner  and tried again, same result.

  • Sent to Jostein for repair

• Origin:  - IBM 5150

• ROM is modded. Pin 21 is not in socket and it's connected to pin 24. 

  • Norwegian ROM - swapped from IBM 5155 No.1

• ISA 8bit

• Location: box with mainboards

• Origin:  - IBM 5155 No.1 - It had both CGA and MDA cards.

• ROM is modded. Pin 21 is not in socket and it's connected to pin 24.

• ISA 8bit

• Location: box with mainboards

• Origin:  - IBM 5160 No.2 with 640KB on-board RAM. 

• Location: box with mainboards

• Origin: West PC 1600

• F68B45P display controller chip. Probably a clone of the MC6845

• Location: IBM 5150

• Bought on Aliexpress

• Video: https://youtu.be/v69cmtxUTps

• I have three of these

  • One is used in the IBM 5160 with 640KB on-board RAM

  • Tested in IBM 5150, but PC beeped one long and two short.

• MFM controller

• Origin: West PC 1600

• ISA16

•  This ISA card provides only 1 RS‑232 serial ports using true 16550‑compatible UARTs.

• The Ei16C550 chipset offers 16‑byte FIFOs for stable high‑speed communication.

• An HT6571 controller manages port addressing and IRQ routing.

• A PALCE16V8H logic device ensures accurate address decoding.

• The 14.7456 MHz crystal delivers precise baud‑rate timing up to 115200 baud.

• LS‑series bus drivers provide strong ISA signal integrity.

• Ideal for MIDI modules, modems, terminals, and industrial equipment.

• Location: Shelf

• IDE/Floppy controller based on the GoldStar GM30C75 chipset.

• Includes a GD74LS245 bus driver and a 24.060 MHz crystal oscillator.

• A reliable and fast controller known for excellent compatibility with 386‑class systems.

• Tested in WestXT386 with 13,3 Mhz bus and works. 20Mhz did not work.

• Location: Shelf

• Super‑I/O controller featuring IDE, Floppy, serial (COM1/COM2) and parallel (LPT) ports.

• Built around the Winbond W83757F and W83758P chipset with a 24 MHz crystal oscillator.

• Likely the fastest and most stable multi‑I/O card in this collection.

• Untested, but jumper configuration is present and complete. Jumpers

• Location: Shelf

• Jumpers.

• Multi I/O controller featuring IDE, Floppy, serial and parallel ports.

• Built around the GoldStar Prime2 IDE chipset.

• Works reliably at standard ISA speeds.

• Floppy cable orientation must be reversed (A/B swapped) compared to other controllers.

• Located in WestXT386

• IDE and Floppy controller. 

• Uses the W83757F and W83757P chipset with a 24 MHz crystal.

• Provides stable IDE and Floppy performance and is generally tolerant of higher ISA bus speeds.

• COM1 and COM2 are non‑functional on this card, but IDE and Floppy works

• Originally installed in WestXT386

• Location: Shelf

• Multi I/O controller featuring IDE, Floppy, serial (COM1/COM2) and parallel (LPT) ports.

• Uses the Winbond W83757AF and W83758P chipset.

• Jumpers

• IDE and Floppy functions work correctly, but the card does not boot XT‑IDE in the WestXT386 system.

• Location: TCI 386sx

• GoldStar GM82C455 dual‑controller design

• 1× external parallel port (DB‑25)

• 1× external serial port (DB‑9)

• Internal headers for second parallel and serial ports

• Winbond W86C451 multi‑I/O controller

• 1× DB‑25 parallel port

• 2× internal 9‑pin serial headers (COM1/COM2)

• 1× game port connector

• New old stock

• GW 451 - Manual

• 1× external parallel port (DB‑25)

• 1× external serial port (DB‑9)

• 1× internal parallel header

• MC1489 RS‑232 line receiver

• SN74LS‑series logic for stable ISA operation

• Suncom game controller

• 2 ports (maybe it came with the Euro PC2)

• PC hangs when card is inserted in IBM 5150

• Origin: IBM 5160

• Location: red box

• Origin: IBM 5160

• ISA8

• Location: box with mainboards

• Origin: IBM 5160

• Location: red box

• Do i still have this?

• Took it out from my Compaq CDS

• Memory card with 384KB

• Make: MEMO - 576

• Manual

• Current location: IBM 5150

• 256 KB RAM

• Make: MEMO - 576

• Origin: IBM 5160

• Manual

• Current location: Shelf

• Came in an IBM 5160

• Current location: Shelf

• Adlib compatible card

• Location: IBM 5150

• CT 1600 - Rev. 069237

• Sound Blaster Pro 2 

• Not Plug'n Play

• Real OPL3 (YMF262)

• MIDI but not MPU-401 compatible (Use SoftMPU to fix)

• Sony CD-ROM interface. CDU31A CDU33A

  • CD-ROM Interfaces: Panasonic and Mitsumi

• Tested on 8bit bus - works fine.

• Have replaced the capacitor on the 5V input from the ISA bus. This did not reduce the noise from the machine. 

• Location: Box

• Sound Blaster CT2260

• Not Plug'n Play

• Real OPL3 - Yamaha YMF262

• Have the hanging note bug

• Wavetable header

• PC-Spk inn

• Line Out and Speaker Out

• Area: DOS to Windows 98SE

• Tested on 8bit bus - works fine.

• Location: West PC 1600

• CT3780

• 1 MB EMU8011 sample ROM, 512KB RAM for Sound Fonts, not upgradable. 

• Internal MPU 401 does not work. So NO GM or GS. External MPU-401 works with SoftMPU

• FM Synth Chip: Yamaha OPL3 embedded in CT1747

• Plug & Play: No - Jumper settings. 

• No Wavetable header, No S/PDIF header

• Supports reverb and chorus effects

• CD-ROM Interfaces: Panasonic, Sony and Mitsumi.

• Location:  IBM PS/1

• Was not working due to bent card, and several broken soldering's. Fixed by Jostein

  • Picture before and after repair

• Soundscape clone sc600

• ENC00: Reveal

• FODSWFX1000

• Assy Rev B - Board Rev A

• Ensonic Sequoia Dev Grp 5706000101 Rev 2

• Ensonic ES5506000102

• MX 89351 Ensonic

• PC Mag - Google Bøker 

• Ubuntu 4 You: Now This Is A Sound Card! Ancient History Revisited (tazbuntu.blogspot.com) 

• Jumpers: SC600+WAVE32+1.jpeg (image) (bp.blogspot.com) 

• Drivers: VOGONS Vintage Driver Library (vogonsdrivers.com) 

My video on this card: Gravis Ultrasound PnP replica from David - and how to install. 

Link: Gravis Ultrasound GUS PnP replica from David's electronics on Tindie 

Location: Shelf

• Chips: ES1668F

• Wavetable header

• PnP

• Not real OPL

• Low Noise

• Jumpers to enable / disable an amplifier.

• CD-ROM IDE interface

• SB Pro and WSS compatible

• Drivers

• Location: Shelf

• With CD-ROM IDE interface

• Value edition, PnP, Wave Blaster header, CQM (Emulates  OPL3)

• DSP v4.13 (with hanging note bug).

• DOS Days - Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 CT2950 (1995) 

• Location: AST Advantage! 6066d

• Sound Blaster CT2960

• Plug'n Play

• Creative OPL3 clone.

• Have the hanging note bug

• Wavetable header

• Area: DOS to Windows 98SE

• Line Out and Speaker Out

• PC-Spk inn

• Have cleaned the card in dishwasher - setting for glass - no drying.

• Location: Shelf

• Sound Blaster CT3670 - The Covert AWE64 Value

• The CT3670 is unique among the Sound Blaster 32 line of cards because it is effectively an AWE64 Value, but with SIMM slots and without onboard RAM. A SIMM is far easier to obtain than one of Creative's proprietary memory modules. The CT3670 chipset is identical to the AWE64 cards with model numbers CT4380 and CT4500.

• 2MB RAM. Only needs 2 MB on-board ram to do MT-32 emulation.

• Plug'n Play

• CD-ROM Interfaces: IDE/ATAPI

• No Wavetable header

• Drivers

• Maybe the best ISA soundcard from Creative!

• Plus for having Reverb and Chorus on adlib sound.

• Games/apps crash when using Internal MIDI. MIDI is enabled with AWEUTIL /EM. The errors says it memory read error. Have tried to remove ram from card, changed ram i PC and tried different EMM386 and BIOS settings. 

  • Must try the card in another machine.

  • Must try with /EM:GM, /EM:GS, and /EM:MT32 - remeber for have the sound fonts files.

• Location: Wic PC - Pentium 200

• Low SNR

• SoundBlaster Pro compatible in DOS and Windows 9x - Highly compatible.

• Windows System System compatible. Gives 16bit in 48Khz in DOS and Windows.

• No hanging note bug on it's MPU-401

• Not real OPL3 - Comparison here. 

• Drivers - Check here for instructions. 

• Location: TCI Pentium 233MMX

• Sound Blaster CT4170

• Plug'n Play

• Creative OPL3 clone.

• No hanging note bug.

• No Wavetable header

• Tested on 8bit bus - works fine.

• Location: IBM PS/2 Model 30-286

• Not picture of actual card.

• Sound Blaster CT4180

• Plug'n Play

• No Speaker in

• Creative OPL3 clone.

• No hanging note bug.

• No Wavetable header

• Location: TCI 386 - I get noise when playing FM/OPL - like when the volume is way to high for a speaker and the sound crackles. 

• Sound Blaster AWE 64  Value - 512KB RAM - ct4520 

• with SBPNPXT or UNISOUND and aweutil /s to make it work. (has to load softfont to get MIDI)

• Plug'n Play

• No Wavetable header

• No hanging note bug.

• Creative OPL3 clone

• Extremely happy with the sound quality.

• UNISOUND for initializing the card, and then AWEUTIL to Initialize AWE Internal MIDI.

• Location: Shelf

Sound Blaster 16/PRO/2.0 and AdLib compatible

• Windows Sound System ver 2.0 compatible

• Microsoft Direct Sound 3D DirectX 5.0 compatible (HRTF 3D Positional Audio)

• Hardware auto switch between WSS and SB16

• Internal OPL3 synthesizer emulator (OPL3 clone that is close to 1:1 to the original)

• MIDI port - compatible with MPU-401 UART mode and Sound Blaster MIDI mode

  • Not intelligent mode. You can get an PC-MIDI addon board or use SoftMPU.

• Dual channel GAME port. (Support Microsoft Game-Pad up to 8 ports)

• Driver support for: Windows 3.1x/9x/NT , DOS and OS/2 Warp 3.0

• MK8330 homepage (pcmidi.eu) 

• Location: DELL XPS

• Experience:

  • Good MIDI ports

  • Extremely bad noice from line out. Use SPDIF if possible.

• PCMIDI is an ISA 8-bit Midi Interface that is fully compatible with the Roland MPU-401 standard so it offers both "Intelligent" and "UART" modes of operation. It is the perfect companion for your retro-PC in order to enjoy MT-32 games without having to worry about incompatibilities or drivers or TSR layers.

• With it's WaveTable header it completely surpasses the SoundBlaster-like MPU interfaces in main soundcards- just let PCMIDI handle all midi jobs and you are set!

• PCMIDI index page 

• Location: Shelf

• CT5803

• Ensoniq sample-synthesis engine to simulate OPL

• General MIDI compatible

• Wikipedia says it is SB16PCI Others call is SB128 or SB64...

• DirectSound, DirectSound3D, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16/Pro 

• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 

• Can be used in DOS with SBINIT.COM - require Expand memory manager

• CT4700

• AdLib, DirectSound, MPU-401, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16/Pro 

• Microsoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 

• Chipset: EMU10K1 (also known as the Audio DSP)

• Sound Quality: 16-bit stereo sound 48 kHz

• MIDI: Real OPL3 FM synthesis

• Connectivity: Line-in, microphone input, CD-in, and speaker out

• Compatibility: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000, DOS

• Expansion: Supports SoundFonts for custom sound sets

• SB0090

• 7.1 channel surround 

• AC '97, ASIO 2.0, Digital Theater Systems Digital Surround, Digital Theater Systems Extended Surround (DTS-ES), DirectSound, DirectSound3D, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital EX, EAX 4.0, General MIDI, OpenAL, Sound Blaster, THX 

• Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition / Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP 

• Supports external break out box.

• Audio Quality: 24-bit, 96 kHz audio resolution

• Sound Effects: EAX 4.0, EAX Advanced HD, OpenAL

• Connectivity: 7.1-channel surround sound, AC'97, ASIO 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital EX, Digital Theater Systems (DTS)

• Expansion: Supports SoundFonts for custom sound sets using AWEUTILS

• Model: SB0240

• Gold connectors.

• SB0310

• Works with: Windows 98SE and above. 

• Location: Shelf

• Came with WestXT386

• ANtastic is a peer-to-peer local area network (LAN) operating system that was developed by Artisoft, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona. It allows computers to share resources such as files, printers, CD-ROMs, and applications across an enterprise. LANtastic supports various network adapters, including Ethernet, ARCNET, and Token Ring. It was especially popular before Windows 95 arrived with built-in networking.

• Speed is only 10Mbit

• Only has db9 connectors. However, you can still connect it to an Ethernet network using a serial-to-Ethernet adapter.

• Location: red box

• Intel 8/16 Lan Adapter - E139761

• ISA16

• 10Mbit

• Location: red box

• ISA/Plug & Play

• 10BASE-T

• Location: red box

• 3Com Etherlink II 16 TP

• 10Mbit

• Location: red box

• Coax and Aux

• Location: Box

• Have boot ROM socket.

• Came with Compaq Presario 433

• ISA16  - Also works in 8bit slot.

• Combo

• Location: In PC

• Combo

• Location: Box

• Combo

• Location: Box

• From Dell GX1

• From Dell GX1

• 10 Mbit

• 10/100Mbit

• 10/100Mbit

• 10/100Mbit

• 10/100Mbit

• Combo

• Maybe NE2000 compatible?

• Analog video capture card

• DVB-T, DVB-S2 and PAL

• Location: Shelf

• 4 external USB

• 1 internal USB

• Location: Shelf

• Location: Shelf