ISA video / sound card? 😳

I received the card today 😁
it is full-lenght ISA 16bit, and actually also has the original YAMAHA YM3812 chip 😀
only prob to solve, is the audio output connector, because of small space, they decided to make a special plug with 9 holes, it is like a SVHS input....

edit: it also has a waveblaster connector!

keropi wrote:

edit: it also has a waveblaster connector!

Are you sure about that? It looks more like a VGA feature connector to me.

oh, damn forgot about that 🤣
I thought I was looking at a soundcard!

this card has 2 sockets for the optional SAA chips, and the config prog has an option to test them (message while testing: SAA chips will play a few notes)
what are these chips? anyone knows????

Maybe for Game blaster

Game Blaster is based on 2 chips Philips SAA 1099

Sorry for double post, I have a very bad wifi connection

damn, I cannot get sound out from that strange connector....

yeah, the SAA chips on that are for gameblaster playback...

WTF!!!!!

the joystick port (what it appears to be one anyway!) carries audio-out!!!!!
OMG LAME!

this card is impressive at least...
both sound and vga have their own eprom where they store settings, no drivers are required and it comes with a VESA2 tsr, it only supports ~10 modes, but it still is cool!

tried commander keen 6 , saw the scrolling prob! never saw that before!

Just interested... Which chipset is this based on? ATI VGA Wonder(+,24) or something newer?

it says ATI VGA WODER 28800...
interesting enough, it has 2 flash BIOS, to save vga and sound settings, both are controlled by DOS progs, the soundcard needs no driver whatsoever, you choose dma/address and line in settings and save to flash, and the vga can output pal/ntsc/ega/cga/vga-mono and a bunch of other modes too, saves settings in flash and become available on boot time... interesting stuff!

here is the ATI pages on the card: http://web.archive.org/web/20011006015311/sup … rds/vgasfx.html

keen games have crap scrolling, is there any fix???

svga compatibiltiy flag ?
I think keen4 had it.

unfortunatelly that does nothing.... only tried keen6, but it has it in options, makes no difference at all.