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List of rarest PC soundcards

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Reply 140 of 247, by Batyra

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OK, that got to be rare?
What the heck is that? Some kinda GUS ACE on steroids with midi?

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Reply 142 of 247, by easy_john

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derSammler wrote:

Do rare variants of common cards count as "rare", too? I own a CT1780 for example, which is a very rare variant of the original SB16.

Yes, I think we can list them.

Pentium2 450/256mb/4gb/ati rage 128+voodoo2/SB awe32 8mb+db50xg/GUS PnP 8mb/TB Tropez 2mb
486 DX2-66/32mb/8gb/tseng4000 2mb/SB 16+WB/GUS 1mb/LAPC-I
286 12mhz/4mb/512mb/Vga 1mb/SB 2.0+Covox
PegasosII G4 / Amiga 4000 / Amiga1200 / Amiga 600

Reply 144 of 247, by Beegle

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derSammler wrote:

This one then:

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(sorry for the X2 on top, haven't made any pictures without it 😉 )

It has both the ASP chip AND a volume wheel. Very nice!

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Reply 146 of 247, by peklop

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Batyra wrote:

OK, that got to be rare?
What the heck is that? Some kinda GUS ACE on steroids with midi?

Looks like full feature GUS-Clasic clone.
Rev 3.7x with the mixerchip.
What Gusdrive2 say?

Reply 148 of 247, by Batyra

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@peklop - Yes! thats exactly the same 😀
It's getting more and more difficult to find a GUS clone these days...
Luckily stii sometimes interesting appears in web from time to time.

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Reply 149 of 247, by pparnane

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sprcorreia wrote:
seob wrote:

I also own a logitech soundman wave. This is also a card you don't see much.

Logitech Soundman Games is even more rare.

I googled for my old soundcard, and found this interesting looking forum. So I had to register only to ask is this Logitech Soundman Games really so rare? I bought this one as a teenager and had to save the card and box, because it was my first piece of PC hardware bought with my own money. It was one of the cheapest soundcards costing about 450 Finnish Marks 1993 (75€ directly converted without inflation) and was praised by legendary Finnish magazine Mikrobitti in a wide review, so this was the card for me.

Maybe should build a Dos gaming PC some day.

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Reply 150 of 247, by McKie1

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Not sure how rare but we still have our original ISA soundcard.

A MediaVision Pro Audio Studio 16. We had it in our 486SX back in the day and never had the heart to turf it.

Will now re-purpose it in a new Legacy Dos PC Build 😀

Reply 151 of 247, by shock__

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Best part about the SoundMan Games is that it can be easily identified with that blue CD-ROM connector.
Not exactly rare, but not too common either.

Current Project: new GUS PnP compatible soundcard

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Reply 152 of 247, by bjwil1991

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I have an Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro that's a Sound Blaster Pro (either 1 or 2) compatible, has Disney Sound Source, Covox Speech Thing, genuine OPL3 (YMF-262M) chipset, MPU-401 UART (tested this and it does work), and volume potentiometer.

Had to repair the card due to traces being destroyed, but it was successful.

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Reply 153 of 247, by Robin4

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This one is also rare:

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On the board is written Amigo.. But its actually and gravis ultra sound compatible.

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 154 of 247, by seob

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Robin4 wrote:
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This one is also rare:

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On the board is written Amigo.. But its actually and gravis ultra sound compatible.

It is a J.J.L. (D&B produts) Ultra Wave Card.

That is a photo that i took from 1 of the 2 cards i had. Sold this one, still have the one without the bios.
Look at this thread how member Peklop eventually found out the cards name: indentify gus max clone

Reply 155 of 247, by seob

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Motiveren you didn’t have a picture of the Logitech soundmachine wave in the Google docs. So here it is.

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Reply 156 of 247, by yawetaG

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I came across this neat little Japanese homepage that shows various sound cards and wavetable daughterboards, including some that appear to be Japan-exclusive:

http://wavetable.web.fc2.com/

(Note that Google translate trips over the menu frame, so you'll have to copy individual URLs...)

Reply 157 of 247, by easy_john

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This is well-known dautherboard colection page, this page even listed in wikipedia.
There is no japan-exclusives.

Pentium2 450/256mb/4gb/ati rage 128+voodoo2/SB awe32 8mb+db50xg/GUS PnP 8mb/TB Tropez 2mb
486 DX2-66/32mb/8gb/tseng4000 2mb/SB 16+WB/GUS 1mb/LAPC-I
286 12mhz/4mb/512mb/Vga 1mb/SB 2.0+Covox
PegasosII G4 / Amiga 4000 / Amiga1200 / Amiga 600

Reply 159 of 247, by retardware

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No idea whether it is rare, but it is a definitely exotic Taiwanese VGA+soundcard combo of the mid-1990s. Never found drivers for it in the web.
I found them in two Wortmann PCs that I bought used around 2000.
I used them as tester cards for examining mobos' function, as they are quite reliable.
(However, the VGA output quality declined over the years exactly in the way one sees when the DC stability decreases, with the older card recently even showing memory errors. Imho its probably a recapping issue.)
The sound chips are from ST and Philips.

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