First post, by W Gruffydd
I won't post them, unless I've genuinely tried to find them. I'll start with a blurb on what is and why I want it. The progress I've made will be listed as either Lead, File or Problem.
Diamond Monster Sound PCI (aka MX100)
One of the first PCI sound cards and progenitor of the mighty MX300. Looking for Windows 95 drivers from the year of its release, 1997. Why? It's for a 1997 build with period-correct hardware, firmware, and software.
Diamond Monster Sound Drivers [Wayback Archive, crawled February 11, 1998] // Driver version 1.05.16, 12/20/97
Taiwanese FTP // MS10516.EXE
I need a full to driver package from a previous year to use it!
- MS10516.EXE is upgrade-only; it requires an existing driver file to be installed. Confirmed by the readme on the FTP and my own installation attempts.
- MS10511.EXE, the nearest previous version on the FTP, is also upgrade-only.
- MS95101A.EXE, the earliest version on the FTP ("Release 1.01" of Monster Sound according to its readme), appears to an entire installation of DirectX (see Attachment 1). When searching for the driver, pointing Windows to any of the these unzipped folders yields no results.
edit: Solved!
Out of desperation, I tried MS95101B.EXE. It turns out that this file, also on the Taiwanese FTP but without a separate readme, contained the needed drivers (see Attachment 2).
