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

In shelf

The colors stopped working in CGA 09.august 2023

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

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: West PC 1600

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

Bought on Aliexpress

Video: https://youtu.be/v69cmtxUTps

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

Tested on WestXT386, but did not find CF (with XT-IDE BIOS on 3COM)

Location: Shelf

RS232

Location: Shelf

IDE, Floppy COM 1, COM 2 and LPT

Jumpers

Does not boot from XT-IDE - testet on WestXT386

Location: Shelf

IDE and Floppy controller. 

Came with the WestXT386

Com port 1 and 2 not working

Works fine as IDE and Floppy controller

Location: Shelf

Jumpers.

Works - but Floppy cable had to be connected with A and B switching places compared to other IO card i have.

Located in WestXT386

Tested in WestXT386. Works fine!

Location: Shelf

W83758P

Untested

Jumpers

Not tested

Came with WestXT386

LPT

COM 1, COM2

Not tested

New old stock

Winbond W86C451

GW 451 - Manual

Not tested

MFM controller

Origin: West PC 1600

ISA16

Suncom game controller

2 ports

Intel 8/16 Lan Adapter - E139761

ISA16

Etherlink II 16 TP

ISA16

PC hangs when card is inserted in IBM 5150

Origin: IBM 5160

ISA8

Origin: IBM 5160

ISA8

Origin: IBM 5160

ISA8

256 KB RAM

Make: MEMO - 576

Origin: IBM 5160

Current location: Shelf

ISA8

Manual

Memory card with 384KB

Make: MEMO - 576

Current location: IBM 5150

ISA8

Manual

Came in an IBM 5160

Untested

Untested

ISA8

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

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: Shelf

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) 

Location: WestXT386

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

Combo

PCI

PCI

10/100

ISA16  - Also works in 8bit slot.

Combo

Location: Toshiba T5200

PCI

PCI

DVB-T

DVB-S2

PAL

PCI

4 external USB

1 internal USB

SB0310

Untested

Works with: Windows 98SE and above. 

Location: Shelf

Untested

Location: Shelf