wrote:Yes, as far as SB16 clones go, ESS has a reputation for being the best choice, second to maybe only Yamaha cards.
There is no SB16 clone out there as far as I know, only SB pro 2 clones
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The C-Media 8330 and ALS xxx chipsets can emulate the SB16.
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Hey guys, forgot to update!
The project is finished and I have a full working socket 7 computer running Windows 95 OSR2 and MS-DOS 7.1.
I was lucky enough to find, back in October, an AT socket 7 computer for free and decided to rebuild it and configure it to my needs.
The power supply, a VTECH PS-01 AT 200W, was in excellent condition and seems sufficient enough to keep it. That was the only thing that worked (ok and the hard drive but 3GB was not enough, ... oh and the graphics and sound card but those were crappy)! Sadly its motherboard was not posting so I replaced it with my baby-AT Soyo SY-5EAS5. I added one dimm of 128MB SDRAM, replaced the cpu with a Pentium MMX 200MHz, the optical drive with an LG DVD-RW, a working floppy drive and its 3GB HDD with a 20GB Maxtor IDE drive.
As for the rest, for graphics I already had the Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo and a Diamond Viper V330 Riva 128 and finally for sound I found a good deal from ebay and bought the ESS Audiodrive 1868F Low Profile ISA card for €14.
Below you can see pictures from the build/restoration procedure and its components.
Yesterday I did some DOS Benchmarks, here are the results:
3D Bench 1.0c ---------------------------------------- 145.8 fps
Chris's 3D Benchmark ------------------------------- 136.4 fps
Chris's 3D Benchmark 640x480 --------------------- 41.4 fps
PC Player Benchmark -------------------------------- 50.3 fps
PC Player Benchmark 640x480 --------------------- 20.8 fps
Doom (max details) ---------------------------------- 73.8 fps
Quake timedemo (640x480) ------------------------ 16.1 fps
Norton System Info 8.0 CPU Speed ---------------- 680.6
TopBench 3.8 score ---------------------------------- 358
Here's also a crappy video I did with my phone just playing some demos of Duke Nukem 3D, Raptor and glQuake (excuse me for my rookie mistake with the floppy drive 😜):
https://youtu.be/Vtop6GclSEo
Also now my glQuake performance is better (40.1 fps at 640x480), I don't know how I only got 30fps three months ago...
Anyway hope you enjoyed reading this post! Cheers!
PC1😜 III-S 1.4GHz, GA-6VTXE, 512MB SDRAM, Albatron FX5900XTV 128MB, SB Live! 5.1
PC2😜 III 800MHz, MS-6178, 256MB SDRAM, 3DFX Voodoo3 2000 PCI, Creative CT4810
PC3😜 MMX 200MHz, SY-5EAS5, 128MB SDRAM, Diamond Monster 3D, Diamond Viper V330, ESS 1868F
