The best would ofc be that smack2k imaged his original disks which he mentioned he had in his possession.

Did you try the drivers on https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/_ … t_isa/amm-1570/ ?

Yeah. That is the best you will find.
The adaptec archives do not give much either: http://web.archive.org/web/19971011091530/htt … p.html#AMM-1570
drivers back then were on their BBS and ftp which were blocked from archive org scanning AFAIK
http://web.archive.org/web/19971024033229/htt … aqs/ammqna.html

I did download this once before, but I guess I didn't go through far enough. I think I'm going to push this to Archive.org with "proper" instructions on how to get this going.

Basically, they give you instman.exe to download, you run it in the directory you want to expand the files to, then you go into the ADSP and run the installer, but it looks to fail as it puts you in a weirdly named temp directory. But if you look at the autoexec.bat file, you see that the changes were made.

Since I'm not running a CDRom drive on this particular machine, I had to remove the CD utility it automatically put into my configs.

I found a small test utility that will play a small WAV file, and it worked - http://www.fysnet.net/playwav.htm - It provided Pascal, QBasic, and an ASM file, with a small test WAV file. I'm going to see if I can find another tool that'll allow me to specify the WAV file to play at start up, or, just modify the Pascal file to allow for params or read a config file and such (It's all hard coded).

The manual is a bit sparse on Audio setup, yeah any other tips you have would be good. Did find a picture of the box and somewhere read it is SB Pro compatible.

I threw it up on Archive.org. I'll put this image against it as well.

DOOM doesn't sound right digitally. There's like this echo that happens, sounds scratchy, and just horrible. Definitely not normal behaviour.

I also found a DOS MP3 player, and threw a couple Scorpions songs on it, and it plays at about 90% speed, kinda quiet, and I can hear a bit of static in each of the songs. I'm not sure if it's the PC or if its the card. I just might go order a Vibra or something next week, not only to have "backup" but just to ensure I've got decent working hardware.

It is SoundBlaster compatible, but I'm not sure if it's DOS, the driver, or the MP3 player, but I got one song out of it in a session, then DOSAmp just forgot how to use the soundcard. Awesome.

Great ! Some Crystal Sound (cs4248) based do have decent sound and yours should have a Wave Table synthesis so maybe something is a bit off with the card. For 1993-94 the best sound cards of that time was the PAS16 or the SB16 for sound quality IMHO.