ESS688 is SoundBlaster Pro compatible if I'm not mistaken.

I really don't understand why Gravis Ultrasound Extreme's are so rare now. Dixons Holland sold loads of them, even after DirectX took off and such cards weren't attractive anymore. I believe for 69 gulden. They just vanished somehow. Had one too. Wish I kept it, could have paid my mortgage with that …

Got one for you http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=43661&p=426022&hilit=Gus#p426022 There are 2 cards of this that i know. One i still own, one i traded. Are you the guy who also posted the clones on the Pouet BBS? Because one of the clones looks like it was made by the same factory as …

Maybe this works, but it's ancient: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/ … sysutl/sil2.zip It mutes sounds, doesn't disable it.

I think I had this card, if my memory serves me right. It came with the S-YXG50 CD, but I was severly disappointed that it didn't have a hardware wavetable. The packaging made it sound otherwise. *Edit: Just found a pic of the packaging on Amazon.

What type of GUS? I assume you installed the drivers? Do you use non-default settings for address/irq/dma etc? Is there any memory installed?

Had a P4 system I was upgrading/swapping cards. Had the case open, inserted a USB stick to boot from, turned the machine on and instant smoke. Turned it off quickly but I saw it came from one of the IC's of the mainboard. A straight line on the IC, all melted/bubbly. Mainboard was completely dead …

I think this pack contains the more recognizable samples from back in the day: https://archive.org/details/AmigaSoundtracker … amplePacksst-xx

Just tested it on my machine running Windows 98 and IE 5 (not 6). I got the DNS error, activated TLS 1.0 and now Google works.

A friend of mine had an Escom Pentium computer with the square speakers and a QuickShot QS-113 joystick. The speakers had the Media Vision logo on them and the soundcard drivers were also from Media Vision if I recall correctly. He bought the soundcard, joystick, speakers, mic and I believe the CD- …

there was a DNS error You probably have tried it already: ipconfig /flushdns But other browsers are displaying Google, so that's probably not it. It was working for me last week. I'll reassemble my PC and check again if I have time.

For DOS you can try CardSoft. I had it running on my old DOS laptop. You do need info on your PCMCIA hardware though, as there are a lot of CardSoft packages out there, made for specific hardware/laptops.

Left out in the rain? Ouch... I would inspect the board first, search for leaking or bulging capacitors and burn spots/fuses.

It's not one of the episodes of Thor's Hammer? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/thors-hammer

A while ago I picked up one of these Esesix thin clients with the sole purpose to convert it into a DOS machine. Your post on Vogons is one of the few good sources of info on this machine 8) . I've been trying out some stuff and noticed some things are different: - 8/16 bit IO recovery defaults to 6 …