These cards shouldn't be hard to find, so I would just keep looking 😀

The ads on that image hosting site are a bit saucy....

LM1877
Dual Audio Power Amplifier

I can't think of what would've caused the chip to overheat/fail in the first place, but it's pretty obvious that the one on there now is a replacement... so it may be that whatever problem it had, has been solved.

I personally wouldn't buy that card, since they're quite common around here. But it sounds like they're a bit harder to find where you are, so if you want it, go for it. It's been repaired, the guy says it works, and it pretty cheap... so it's not like you'd be taking a big risk.

Thank you guys, I'm accepting his offer 😀

SquallStrife, yeah, they are... I didn't relocate the images, sorry for that.

So I installed the card and now I'm really happy with it!

At first I turned on the PC, w98 automatically installed some standard driver for it and it was noisy as hell. That was quite a disappointment, but than I downloaded original drivers from Yamaha and the sound became clear and quite perfect. Actually, so far it's the clearest retro sound card I own! 😀

... and Phil and Old Thrashbarg were right, they are quite common. To this point I already have 3 YMF71x cards as well as YMF711 inside Libretto 50CT and YMF715 onboard PD440FX. I wasn't even on the lookout for one, they were just passing by.

Why is this in the Emulation forum?

Moved.

Yup, what purpose? XDD