ISA/VL/PCI Cards

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

• 8bit

• 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

• Location: Shelf

• CGA, Hercules, MDA, EGA and Plantronics.

• 8bit

• Came with Copam PC

• Have printed manual

• 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

• 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

• Is in West PC 1600

• ISA 8/16

• Speed on Intel Pentium MMX 233Mhz

  • 3DBench2: 33.1

  • Quake TimeDemo Demo 3 - nosound: 19.4 FPS

• Switchable 8 and 16 bit ISA

• VGA card

• Support 15Khz Output - VGA 2 SCART

• Manual.

• Speed

  • 3DBench2: 33.1

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

• Location: Shelf

• Chips: p86C911 (gets very hot) and TR9C1710

• Markedted as a high end Windows card.

• Drivers.

• 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.

• 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: Green basket

• 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: Green basket

• Origin: West PC 1600

• ISA 8bit

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

• Location: IBM 5150

• Not working - at least not in the one machine it was tested.

• 15.6MB/sec

• 80286 CPU

• 512KB RAM - expandable to 1MB

• 16/32 bit data transfer

• Manual

• Driver for DOS, Netware, Windows and OS/2 Version 1.3

• RS232

• IDE

• Floppy

• COM 1, COM 2

• LPT

• LPT

• COM 1, COM2

• Not tested

• MFM controller

• Origin: West PC 1600

• ISA16

• Suncom game controller

• 2 ports

Intel 8/16 Lan Adapter - E139761

• Etherlink II 16 TP

• PC hangs when card is inserted in IBM 5150

• Origin: IBM 5160

• Origin: IBM 5160

• Origin: IBM 5160

• 256 KB RAM

• Make: MEMO - 576

• Origin: IBM 5160

• Current location: Shelf

• Manual

• Memory card with 384KB

• Make: MEMO - 576

• Current location: IBM 5150

• Manual

• 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: Shelf / Amstrad PPC640

• 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) 

• 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

• Not Plug'n Play - Jumper settings. 

• PC will not detect card in any IO address. The PC used for testing works fine with any other SB card.

• No Wavetable header

• CD-ROM Interfaces: Panasonic, Sony and Mitsumi

• Location: Shelf

1. Creative chip has no contact with the PCB on one side. Needs to be resoldered.

   1. Have resoldered. Three pins on the main chips is missing. They are teard of the Chip.

2. For testing on 286: https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/sb16_on_old_systems.php

   1. Or just use UNISOUND for initializing the card, and then AWEUTIL to Initialize AWE Internal MIDI.

• 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

• 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: Olivetti M316

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Location: Shelf

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

• 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

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

• Microsoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 

• 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)

• Digital audio SPDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Input/Output

• (due to chip design *only* PCM/FM and DIGITAL-IN are outputted from the S/PDIF port)

• Full Duplex 16-bits CODEC

• Sound Blaster 16/PRO Mixer and Windows Sound System Mixer compatible

• 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)

• Five software select DMA lines (0, 1, 3, 5, 7)

• Six software select interrupt lines (5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12)

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

• MK8330 homepage (pcmidi.eu) 

• 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 

• PCI

• 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 instead

• PCI

• Model: SB0240

• Gold connectors.

• PCI

• PCI

• PCI

• 10/100

• PCI

• PCI

• DVB-T

• DVB-S2

• PAL

• PCI

• 4 external USB

• 1 internal USB

• SB0310

• Untested

• Works with: Windows 98SE and above. 

• Location: Shelf

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• Untested

• Location: Shelf