First post, by OasysPCI
Hello everybody and thank you for existing!!! Pretty cool and knowledgeable community it seems!
So here's the dilemma:
I bought a Korg Oasys PCI from Mr. Andy West bass player and founder of none other but the Dixie Dregs! So that was about 20 years ago on e-bay and it's a really cool piece of hardware for synthesizers sounds. So because of that, because of the price I paid for it and because of its pedigree I've really never wanted to depart from it. I figured the day in which I could install 98-SE in modern gear would come and in preparation for that I purchased some patches that allow 98 to take quite a bit more ram than it was originally designed for to put together an old school digital audio workstation running inside my hackintosh which has 128 GB of ram.
Regarding this card, drivers for XP and above were never developed. I kept my card in the box waiting for the day in which either Virtualbox et al would allow for an easy way to expose the card to the guest OS (likely 98-SE).
I saw the card below for sale for less than $30
And I was wondering if anyone here might have a recommendation for a virtual machine software that would allow me to expose the PCI card to the guest OS (Windows 98-SE in this case) and if anyone has ever used successfully these PCI-E to PCI adapters and have had Windows happily use them.
Incidentally, I've recently became acquainted with em86 and other projects that would be so purist as to slow down performance to the emulated hardware. I was curious about actually running the thing as fast as it could possibly run it so to achieve the lowest possible latency.
Thanks in advance for your input!