Sound Blaster... more like hiss blaster... LOLOLOL. I made some recordings of my SB16 CT1770 (DSP 4.12). I actually don't think it is that bad if you just want something to use that is cheap and will work. http://tenorman.info/pc/ct1770

One of the archive.org links works for the games demos, it's about 40mb and doesn't download very quickly: https://web.archive.org/web/20140905021829/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43851675/OPL3GameDemos.zip Thanks for digging that up. I still have a few more sound cards to get around to and …

I know this is old , but both this and https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=440785#p440785 deserve a bump. I had been trying to run down a crash problem with the Sierra SCI 1.1 games (LSL6 and Freddy Pharkas) for several weeks. I noticed that the Windows 3.1 versions of these games both behaved a …

I finished a write up and some recordings of the Ensoniq Soundscape OPUS. I tried to demonstrate the three different modes that the card supports. Decent General MIDI, but the FM Support on this thing is really terrible. http://www.tenorman.info/pc/soundscapeopus

I made a few recordings of my Logitech SoundMan-16 / Pro AudioSpectrum Basic and posted them at http://tenorman.info/pc/pas16ll#recordings. I working on some for other cards and posting them as well.

Ah, better avoid the PAS16 then as they have a poor MPU401 implementation. They do play nicely with a second sound card though so that’s an option. This does work well, but I would add one caveat: Depending on what other hardware you are using, it could be difficult because you need a boat load of …

I'm starting to get a good collection going and am thinking about making some recordings. Does anyone have a copy of the OPL3GameDemos.zip file? The Dropbox link off of https://sites.google.com/site/soundcardcomparison/home/the-games is dead. I'm not sure that I would do all of these or not, but it …

Hello All, I don't think I am going to share much here that hasn't been covered before, but I have been messing with a Logitech SoundMan-16 in my Compaq 486 for a couple days. Here are some notes / thoughts: -The card I purchased is a Logitech SoundMan-16. This is the same card as a Media Vision Pro …

irradiating / irritating... Same thing right? Thanks for the suggestions. I think it would be easiest to just grab another card with a ES1868 or ES1869 chip and see if it has the same problem. These things are pretty cheap and common. Right now the plan is to install the Pro AudioSpectrum 16 when it …

Thanks for the response. Something that I should have mentioned before is that the IBM 07h0849 version of this card does not have an IDE header, so nothing to worry about there as far as disabling it. The /J option in ESSCFG enables or disables the joystick port ("e" or "d'). There isn't a whole lot …

Hello All, I am using an ESS AudioDrive 1868F sound card in my Presario 633 and am getting popping sounds in the music on some games. The weird thing is that I only hear it in certain tracks in certain games. It is really prevalent in Leisure Suit Larry 7 (see attachment), but I have also heard it …

I ended up getting a DX4ODPR100 chip and installing it. I also threw in another 16 MB of RAM (28 MB total now). I won't ever need it on a system like this, but it was cheap so why not? I did some before and after benchmarks with Phil's DOS Benchmark Pack. Benchmark Name: SX-33 / DX4-100 3DBench 1.0c …

486_pc.jpg I got the external SCSI CD-ROM working. The drive got pretty beaten up in the mail, but it works, so whatever. I switched everything over to PS2 and am using a KVM so I can switch over to the 486 from my "regular" computer easily. The splotch above the Compaq logo is ink. I'm sure I …

A couple of updates: I got the sound card, RAM, and CF adapter installed. I am waiting on a SCSI cable so no CD-ROM yet. I was able to get DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 installed without any problems. A pleasant surprise was that the BIOS detected the full 4 GB size of the CF card so I didn't have to use …

It is a Tseng E4000/W32I. From my research, I think it is supposed to be one of the better integrated video chips from the time. That was pleasant surprise. Filename presario_633_video.jpg File size 271.17 KiB Views 2531 views

Hello All, We bought a new house last year. The previous owners left an old computer (along with a bunch of garbage) in a crawlspace in the basement. I finally dug it out last week to see what it was. The computer was sitting on the old cabinet in the back. crawlspace.jpg It is a Compaq Presario 633 …