Next we have an ATI VGA STEREO/FX card... this is actually a full-length ISA card that is both an ATI wonder VGA and an ATI STEREO/FX soundcard.... I originally bought it to save an ISA slot (for my Amiga4000 + goldengate combo) but I did not like the vga wonder part... gave me scrolling errors in apogee titles... the sound part is a sbpro compatible one IIRC (I wonder what those empty sockets are for btw) and worked fine. All vga and sound settings are stored on an onboard eprom and on the back you have the vga-out , game/midi and a LAME custom port that handles sound in/out ... IMHO sound-out should be a normal jack.

(click on thumbs for a full image)

next we have an 8-bit unknown purpose card that seems to handle Dolby surround sound. I have no idea who made it, for what purpose and how to use it. On the back you have 3 digital outupt, an input and 2 "normal 3.5mm" output jacks... any info on that?

we continue with a MediaVision Thunderboard (AFAIK) , an 8bit ISA card that is SB (pro?) compatible... nice little thingie and it just works 😀

since we are at 8bits, here is an adlib clone (I really like those little cards 😁 )

on to something more "interesting" , a SB16 (?) made for DELL , I suspect it to be on the crappy side for our standards...

and a 1MB dream chipset wavetable daughterboard.... IIRC it sucks 😵

and lastly something non-sound... an 8bit card that is supposed to be a HDD bios that attaches itself to your normal bios and allows older systems to use hard disks bigger than 512MB (how much bigger I have no idea) , never tested it and on the one machine it would be usefull to me (yep my IBM) has only 3 ISA slots so I am not gonna waste one for it (using diskmanager instead)

Amazing!

I know this is not a soundcard, but I'll post it anyway.

This is an old video capture card. It's HEAVY, has a daughterboard, is ISA and doesn't even have drivers for Windows 95.

I see it has some motorola dsp's on the daughterboard... I bet this is a computer-on-a-card 😁

I can see it has what looks like an IDE connector so it has it's own dedicated disk...but the other header looks like a floppy connector? 😕

maybe some of those connectors are the daughterboard connectors...
Amigaz, don't you think the daughterboard looks like it was made for amiga? 🤣

keropi wrote:

maybe some of those connectors are the daughterboard connectors...
Amigaz, don't you think the daughterboard looks like it was made for amiga? 🤣

Yeah, the motorola CPU looks like a EC68020 in the A1200 or the EC68030 in the A4000 rev D 😎

Amigaz wrote:

I can see it has what looks like an IDE connector so it has it's own dedicated disk...but the other header looks like a floppy connector? 😕

The other header is the VGA feature Connector. It's used to connect it to a standard VGA card, kinda like SLI.
The 1st 2 headers are used to attach the daughterboard.
The smaller board pictured above the ActionMedia 2 is actually the daughterboard.
This was one of -the- first video capture cards out there and cost a lot of $$$ when it was new. Not that many were made and of those made, many were made for MCA. It supports a whopping 320x240-ish resolution!

Unfortunately I don't have the special VGA cable, I only have the board but it can be connected by the feature cable also 😀

Edit: I'm not sure what the other connectors are for. Apparently you can attach somekind of cdrom drive to it??
I'm trying to find a manual of this card that includes a description of those headers now

keropi wrote:

Next we have an ATI VGA STEREO/FX card... this is actually a full-length ISA card that is both an ATI wonder VGA and an ATI STEREO/FX soundcard....

I also have one of those, but I don't have the cables to get it to work and never found the pinouts online.
IIRC It has a real OPL chip as well, a very nice and interesting card.

TheLazy1 wrote:

keropi wrote:

Next we have an ATI VGA STEREO/FX card... this is actually a full-length ISA card that is both an ATI wonder VGA and an ATI STEREO/FX soundcard....

I also have one of those, but I don't have the cables to get it to work and never found the pinouts online.
IIRC It has a real OPL chip as well, a very nice and interesting card.

me neither - via trial and error I found GND , audio_out-L and audio_out-R ... never bothered to build a cable though...

> next we have an 8-bit unknown purpose card that

http://www.mirosupport.de/media/surround/surround.html

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

> next we have an 8-bit unknown purpose card that

http://www.mirosupport.de/media/surround/surround.html

Nice! 😀 And on that page, software for DOS / Windows 3.11 / 95 / 98 / W2K / XP / NT. No Vista however. 😉

Ohhh thanks h-a-l-9000 !!!!
So I guess it is an obsolete card nowdays... the only use I can think of it would be to use it for surround sound when playing a DVD from a software player for example... or is it used for other stuff too?

Intel Actionmedia. That must be Intel's failed attempt to conquer the video market. The main board appears to have a bunch of Intel built chips. i750 is their video controller.

The DB looks like a controller board maybe. Runs the firmware and controls the other stuff. I think two of the Motorola chips are DSPs the other a basic CPU. Audio processing?

It looks like it has connectors for SCSI drives. You aren't moving a video stream through ISA.

The smallest white connector may be a VESA passthrough to the system's video card. So you can watch your overlay video in Windows 3.1. 🤣

the only use I can think of it would be to use it for surround sound when playing a DVD from a software player for example... or is it used for other stuff too?

There had to have been other uses for it, considering that it predates DVDs (and the fact that there are no DVD players for Win31 or DOS, despite the card having drivers for said OSes). I'd suspect it was more aimed at games and 'multimedia' CDROMs. But given the obscurity of the card, it's pretty clear that whatever its purpose was, it didn't catch on.

I'm not gonna lie - I seriously cannot see me using it ever... if any of the regular amigos here wants it then I 'll happily gift it or trade it with something else like a soundcard with a chipset I don't have 😊

Keropi, I found this on the net:

http://www.mirosupport.de/media/surround/surr.pdf (Page 7)

On page 7, it says "Was ist miroMedia Surround?" Unfortunately, I can't read German properly. I tried to copy and paste the paragraph of information in to Google Lunatic*, but I can't seem to CTRL-C --> CTRL-V the information from the .pdf file, in to Google's webpage.

* Just me being silly.

yeah, copy does not work...

retro games 100 wrote:

Keropi, I found this on the net: […]
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Keropi, I found this on the net:

http://www.mirosupport.de/media/surround/surr.pdf (Page 7)

On page 7, it says "Was ist miroMedia Surround?" Unfortunately, I can't read German properly. I tried to copy and paste the paragraph of information in to Google Lunatic*, but I can't seem to CTRL-C --> CTRL-V the information from the .pdf file, in to Google's webpage.

* Just me being silly.

Fortunatly I can read german 😉.
It just says that this card features a Dolby Pro Logic decoder.

You can attach 5 speakers, front l/r. center, back l/r
And requirements are MS-DOS 3.0, Win 3.x or Win95.