I have an Addonics-manufactured YMF-718 sound card in one of my computers here. When I'm playing anything to a Waveblaster-compatible card (I have two here, one is KS0164-based while the other is CS9233-based) the sound quality drops drastically. At first, I thought it was just very compressed …

Micron built decent machines back in the Pentium 2 days. Most of the motherboards from that time period were Intel-made and had decent Yamaha onboard sound.

To clarify, Compaq machines from this era didn't contain the BIOS setup utility on the motherboard itself. It was a Windows 3.1-based partition on the hard drive or on a floppy diskette.

Jade Falcon wrote: Looks abit like a neigeo cable. Pin Layout wise Thanks for mentioning that, I wasn't aware that Neo Geo also used DA-15 plugs for controllers. 😀

peklop wrote: Looks like MIDI cable for unknown device. Really? I'd have never guessed. Thank you for waking up an old thread with such quality information!

Checking in the Multimedia control panel and "Sound Galaxy BX/NX FM Synth" is selected. The only other option is "Galaxy MIDI-Out Port". Setting the MIDI out to that and back didn't improve the situation, either. Playing a file with the Voyetra AudioStation (included with the BXII drivers) produces …

Hey, a while back I took ownership of an HP Vectra 486ST (production prototype) that contained an Aztech SoundGalaxy BXII. I took an image of the hard drive and played around a bit with the current installation of Windows 95 before wiping the drive and reinstalled. I've tried with both the Aztech …

Yes, it very much does look like the plugs the All In Wonder X600 used. I looked into the Diamond Edge 3D. While it has a DA-15 dongle, the end that plugs into the computer is an 8P8C connector (like 10base-T ethernet.)

Ziginox, I think you got pretty close to the truth. I bet you anything it goes to a laptop, or to a laptop docking station. But I could be wrong, of course. Yeah, I have a similar cable for my ThinkPad 760ED, except it uses a micro centronics-style plug. However, the weird square DIN-plug seems …

I found this the other day at a thrift store and figured I might need it in the future. :blush: Does anybody know what it goes it? The cable is about 20cm long, one end is a DA-15 connector with a joystick logo printed on the housing, obviously a game port. The other end has twelve pins (4x4 grid …