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First post, by biggieshellz

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I was looking for a cheap but decent ISA sound card, and I found this one: https://www.cnaweb.com/isa-16-bit-sound-card.aspx as one of the first results on Google Shopping. The photo showed an ESS logo on the chip, so I ordered one. Here's what I got for $16.20 including shipping. It arrived new in the box, with the original instructions and driver disk. I haven't installed it yet, but it looks like exactly what I was looking for.

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Reply 1 of 4, by Pierre32

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Seems that's useful for America only, but good find none the less. Obviously cheap/generic little cards but they're period correct at least, not the dodgy new things that appear on ebay. Keen to hear how you go with it.

Reply 3 of 4, by DerBaum

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Ensign Nemo wrote on 2023-08-12, 01:13:

I'd be interested in hearing how it sounds.

probably like this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUm1vny0vU
ESFM is quite a ok emulation of a OPL.

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