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Dual sound card advice

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First post, by aerosim

Posted on 2019-02-28, 08:14

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Hi all,

I recently acquired an Addonics Yamaha YMF-718S ISA sound card, and was looking to pair it up with another on the PCI bus.

I've got 1 ISA and 6 PCI on the board.

What recommendations are out there? Ideally will be using DOS 6.22, though may install Win 98 SE at a later stage. I don't mind editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to make it work, pretty good at that stuff.

Thanks

Last edited by aerosim on 2019-02-28, 09:15. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 6, by Deksor

Posted on 2019-02-28, 09:14

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What PCI sound card do you want to use ? Some don't play well with DOS. What yiu need to do is to give both sound cards different addresses, IRQs and DMAs

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Reply 2 of 6, by aerosim

Posted on 2019-02-28, 09:18

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I'm fine with the configuration side of things, I was thinking a sound blaster of some sort? But unsure which models are supported?

Reply 3 of 6, by Deksor

Posted on 2019-02-28, 09:22

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PCI sound blaster suck. It's not useful at all under DOS with that YMF installed. It might be useful under Windows 98 though, but I still don't really like that card.

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Reply 4 of 6, by canthearu

Posted on 2019-02-28, 09:26

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If you are not using windows 95/98, there is no point adding an advanced PCI sound card.

Sblive/audigy are good and cheap for windows 98. Vortex 1/2 have fantastic output, but are expensive.

Reply 5 of 6, by Deksor

Posted on 2019-02-28, 09:32

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YMF 7x4 could have been cool, but you just use DOS. Under DOS, there is no point into having a YMF7x4 PCI over a YMF71x ISA

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Reply 6 of 6, by aerosim

Posted on 2019-02-28, 09:42

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Ok. Thanks all.

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