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ATI Stereo F/X 16bit ISA combo card, any info?

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First post, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-22, 07:28

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hello!

I grabbed this from ebay ATI VGA Stereo F/X 16-bit ISA Video Sound Card and I was wondering if anyone has used it before or has some more info. I managed to get the latest drivers from a thai website too.
But I was wondering how does it perform.
I plan to use it inside my Amiga4000 , where I have also a 486 bridgeboard ( look it here Vortex: Golden Gate 486SLC )in order to save 1 shared zorro/isa slot.

Reply 1 of 14, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2007-01-23, 01:35

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ISA video / sound card? 😳

Reply 2 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-30, 15:32

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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!

Reply 3 of 14, by 5u3

Posted on 2007-01-30, 15:51

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keropi wrote:
edit: it also has a waveblaster connector!

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

Reply 4 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-30, 16:00

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

Reply 5 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-30, 16:25

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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????

Reply 6 of 14, by StickByDos

Posted on 2007-01-30, 19:51

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Maybe for Game blaster

Game Blaster is based on 2 chips Philips SAA 1099

Type win to loose the power of your computer !

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Posted on 2007-01-30, 19:51

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Type win to loose the power of your computer !

Reply 8 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-30, 19:52

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

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

Reply 9 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-30, 19:54

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WTF!!!!!

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

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Reply 10 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-30, 21:17

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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!

Reply 11 of 14, by 5u3

Posted on 2007-01-30, 22:08

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

Reply 12 of 14, by keropi

Posted on 2007-01-31, 11:19

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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???