I was looking for a cheap but decent ISA sound card, and I found this one: https://www.cnaweb.com/isa-16-bit-sound-card.aspx as one of the first results on Google Shopping. The photo showed an ESS logo on the chip, so I ordered one. Here's what I got for $16.20 including shipping. It arrived new in …

Thanks, all -- I was able to get the AD1816 card going by setting the BLASTER variable appropriately and then running UNISOUND. I do notice that some of the game music sounds a little bit different than I remember it from my childhood PC (Compaq Presario with built-in ESS 1869). For Windows 95, the …

Hi all, I recently bought a couple of old white-box PCs at an estate sale for super cheap. The one I have been playing with so far is a Pentium 133, Socket 7. I just did a clean install of Windows 95 on it, and things are working for the most part, except for the sound card. It's a Mediatek SY1816, …