dr.zeissler wrote on 2022-02-19, 10:14:

ES1371 is also supported in AMITHLON!

Ok great thank you!

I tried the card in Linux, it does work.

Just wanted to add my experience to this thread.

I originally got an later Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI (CT4810) card with the CT5880 chip
- CD Has Drivers for later windows but not 3.1
- The 7501748.exe drivers give the "no card detected" message
- The older Watler's drivers (crea1371.dll) didn't work, It had a device selection and none of the options seemed to do anything
- The newer Watler's drivers (CT137X.dll) worked (wav only) but the sound goes strange after a while http://turkeys4me.byethost4.com/programs/index.htm

I purchased an older Ensoniq AudioPCI with the ES1370 chip
- The 7501748.exe drivers installs fine and works great

Also I found that a driver CD got posted to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/ensoniq-audiopci-drivers
I haven't tried it but it might be an easier way to get the drivers installed

Playing with the Aureal Vortex 1 (AU8820), it does work just fine in DOS and Windows 3.1x, however adjusting the sound can be a little tedious.
I think in theory, for DOS, settings are supposed to pull from vortex.ini, but perhaps if you replace asp4dos.com with the newer version, that doesn't work, not sure.
However, I found a DOS mixer that works with SB compatible soundcards and also works with this card called SBMIX: https://www.bttr-software.de/products/sbmix/
Example usage:

1sbmix 15 /w15,15 /f15,15 /c15,15

For Win3.1X, the best I can tell, there is no GUI for the mixer (you'll notice that an "Aureal Vortex Mixer" driver is installed when you install the Win3.1 drivers)
However, there are settings in C:\windows\system.ini that you can change under [Config\MixerSettings]
To get max volume, I just changed all values that were 32767 to 65535 (items like VolLineOutLeft, VolLineOutRightt, etc.) When done, it looked like this for me:

1[Config\MixerSettings]
2VolLineOutLeft=65535
3VolLineOutRightt=65535
4VolMonoOutLeft=65535
5VolMonoOutRightt=65535
6VolLTelphone=65535
7VolLVideoLeft=0
8VolLVideoRight=0
9VolLWtLeft=65535
10VolLWtRight=65535
11VolLWaveLeft=65535
12VolLWaveRight=65535
13VolLMic=0
14VolLLineLeft=0
15VolLLineRight=0
16VolLCDLeft=65535
17VolLCDRight=65535
18VolLAuxLeft=0
19VolLAuxRight=0
20VolWTelephone=0
21VolWMic=0
22VolWLeinLeft=0
23VolWLineRight=0
24VolWCDLeft=65535
25VolWCDRight=65535
26VolWVideoLeft=0
27VolWVideoRight=0
28VolWAuxLeft=0
29VolWAuxRight=0
30VolWMixStereoLeft=0
31VolWMixStereoRight=0
32VolWMixMono=0
33VolVMic=0
34VolVLineLeft=0
35VolVLineRight=0
36SelectMonoOutMicMix=0
37OnOff20dBBoost=1
38OnoffToneLineOut=0
39BassLineOut=1
40TrebleLineOut=1
41MuteLWt=0
42MuteLWave=0
43MuteLMic=0
44MuteLLine=0
45MuteLCD=0
46MuteLVideo=0
47MuteLAux=0
48MuteLineOut=0
49MuteMonoOut=0
50MuxWaveIn=1
51MuxVoiceIn=0
52MuxLineOut=503

And of course, Windows will unload the asp4dos DOS driver on launch which is annoying, so you need to reload it when you exit Windows and reset the sound levels. SMH. So I moved C:\windows\win.com to be C:\windows\wincom.com and created a C:\windows\win.bat with these contents:

1@echo off
2C:\windows\asp4dos.com -u
3C:\windows\wincom.com
4LH C:\windows\asp4dos.com
5C:\sbmix 15 /W15,15 /F15,15 /C15,15

Hope that this helps someone! Especially since the Vortex 1 is cheap!!!