I have one of these. I'll check what I have as far as software goes later on today.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-07-29, 13:50:

I have one of these. I'll check what I have as far as software goes later on today.

Awesome! That would be a big help. Thanks

This may be what you are looking for .

ftp://akbkuku.com/pub/drivers/storage/cdrom/Backpack.zip

https://youtu.be/xAlkgAaX4A4

darry wrote on 2020-07-29, 20:12:

This may be what you are looking for . […]
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This may be what you are looking for .

ftp://akbkuku.com/pub/drivers/storage/cdrom/Backpack.zip
Backpack.zip

https://youtu.be/xAlkgAaX4A4

Huh.. Never seen that driver pack before.
Those are beta drivers for the older models.
2.04 and 2.05 beta CDROM drivers and 1.02 Sound drivers.

Here is the driver pack I downloaded from somewhere a couple years ago which incidentally is the specific one that the OP asked about:

1ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
2    ³                Backpack CD-ROM with Sound      12.14.99  ÿ
3    ³          16-bit driver Version 4.00 DOS/Windows          ³³
4    ³       Win95/98 Plug and Play v2.03 - WinNT v4.03.00      ³³
5    ³            Windows & Windows 95/98 Sound v2.00           ³³
6    ³                                                          ³³
7    ³ Place this self-extracting file in its own folder or sub-³³
8    ³ directory before extracting. Run DISK1.EXE and DISK2.EXE ³³
9    ³ to extract the files originally found on the Backpack    ³³
10    ³ installation disks.                                      ³³
11    ³                                                          ³³
12    ³Run SETUP.EXE from DOS, Win, Win95/98 or WinNT to install.³³
13    ³                                                          ³³
14    ³  To create new installation diskettes, read the          ³³
15    ³  instructions provided in the file:                      ³³
16    ³                                                          ³³
17    ³     MAKEDISK.DOC (using Microsoft Word)                  ³³
18    ³     MAKEDISK.TXT (using NOTEPAD or DOS EDIT)             ³³
19    ³                                                          ³³
20    ³Copyright 1999 Micro Solutions, Inc.                      ³³

I might have the disks from the 181200 as I think I also have a boxed version...

Edit: I do... and here are images of the original disks which of course are older than the one above.
They are in compressed Winimage format.

On a side note, I have multiple drives I use to read old disks. Sometimes they will work fine in one drive but not in other drives.

Thanks for the upload cyclone3d. Those were exactly what i was looking for! Will give these a try later. Once again many thanks!

Please post an update when you get it working, I'm very curious how well a contraption like this works.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-07-30, 04:38:

Huh.. Never seen that driver pack before. Those are beta drivers for the older models. 2.04 and 2.05 beta CDROM drivers and 1.0 […]
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darry wrote on 2020-07-29, 20:12:

This may be what you are looking for . […]
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This may be what you are looking for .

ftp://akbkuku.com/pub/drivers/storage/cdrom/Backpack.zip
Backpack.zip

https://youtu.be/xAlkgAaX4A4

Huh.. Never seen that driver pack before.
Those are beta drivers for the older models.
2.04 and 2.05 beta CDROM drivers and 1.02 Sound drivers.

Here is the driver pack I downloaded from somewhere a couple years ago which incidentally is the specific one that the OP asked about:

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1ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
2    ³                Backpack CD-ROM with Sound      12.14.99  ÿ
3    ³          16-bit driver Version 4.00 DOS/Windows          ³³
4    ³       Win95/98 Plug and Play v2.03 - WinNT v4.03.00      ³³
5    ³            Windows & Windows 95/98 Sound v2.00           ³³
6    ³                                                          ³³
7    ³ Place this self-extracting file in its own folder or sub-³³
8    ³ directory before extracting. Run DISK1.EXE and DISK2.EXE ³³
9    ³ to extract the files originally found on the Backpack    ³³
10    ³ installation disks.                                      ³³
11    ³                                                          ³³
12    ³Run SETUP.EXE from DOS, Win, Win95/98 or WinNT to install.³³
13    ³                                                          ³³
14    ³  To create new installation diskettes, read the          ³³
15    ³  instructions provided in the file:                      ³³
16    ³                                                          ³³
17    ³     MAKEDISK.DOC (using Microsoft Word)                  ³³
18    ³     MAKEDISK.TXT (using NOTEPAD or DOS EDIT)             ³³
19    ³                                                          ³³
20    ³Copyright 1999 Micro Solutions, Inc.                      ³³

bpsd203.zip

I might have the disks from the 181200 as I think I also have a boxed version...

Edit: I do... and here are images of the original disks which of course are older than the one above.
They are in compressed Winimage format.
CDGUIDE-On_disk_User's_Guide.zip
Disk_1_of_2-SETUP_for_DOS_Win_Win95_NT_2.12.imz.zip
Disk_2_of_2-SETUP_for_DOS_Win_Win95_NT_2.12.imz.zip

On a side note, I have multiple drives I use to read old disks. Sometimes they will work fine in one drive but not in other drives.

Thank you immensely for posting these. I picked up one of these on eBay that someone mislabeled as the 181100 model but the pictures clearly showed the 4x 3.5 jacks and sure enough, I got it and it's a real 181200.

The sound quality on this thing is better than I expected it would be, but I only tested it successfully on my Thinkpad 360C and that 486 SX can't pump out more than midi, wavs, and tracker modules. But those sound great!

I first tried it on my Thinkpad 760XD with a Pentium 166 MMX, but it would only spit out about 2 seconds of audio and then go quiet. I suspect since I had installed a fullsize backpack RW drive on that machine before, the newer backpack software was causing a conflict with this one. At some point I will try again with a clean install of Win95 to be sure, but since it works on the 486 I would say it works.

I also have a Panasonic KXL-D745 for that machine and will have to get them both connected to do a comparison.

I also really want to thank cyclone3d for posting those image files!

Found myself with my original unreadable floppies and the only drivers I could find online, other than these, were ones that didn't support sound. Didn't realize this until after I installed them. About the install, I too ran into the issue of sounds only playing for a few seconds then stopping. The solution was to completely uninstall both the initial driver w/o sound and this installer.

Again, thanks cyclone3d and VOGONS.
Carlos

These things are hard to get open without breaking them.

On a related note, I have one of the older models (164700) and indeed the sound board is there. It appears that finding its driver is a major challenge... Any help?

This page has some drivers http://minuszerodegrees.net/backpack_cdrom/ba … kpack_cdrom.htm
Version 4.00 claims to support all models.

The driver I've been using so far is from that page, but no sound devices in the system. Either I installed it wrong, or these drivers are only for the IDE-LPT adapter inside, not the sound board. Let me try this again.

Turns out I had the pnp v4.05 driver installed. Removed, installed the 4.00 version. I am a bit unsure if running setup from windows was enough... Now the drive gets mounted and reacts to software 'eject', but still no sound devices in the system (or any sound for that matter). No further instructions for W95 in the cdguide or the readme, unless I am missing something major. Any suggestions? Thanks!

upd: if you hit 'details' for the 4.00 drivers, it says that the sound is not included, just as I suspected. That's unfortunate...

This may be useful in case someone needs the latest drivers, though still not sure if this package includes sound: https://winworldpc.com/product/backpack-drivers/2002

Do the ones I posted near the beginning of the thread not work for you?

Edit: Or the one posted above the one I posted?

Edit 2: I have a boxed 164700 with the disks. They are v2.04 so the one posted above mine up near the top should work.

Did you read and follow the install instructions?

The OP's photo made me assume that the posted drivers were for an entirely different series of devices, ergo no, I did not read any instructions, because I did not download anything.
I am nowhere near the level of knowledge you guys have here about this hardware, so please bear with me. A big noob here, ladies and gentlemen. Let me try the Backpack.zip posted above yours up top.

Sadly, the audio installer quits with the message attached. This is the setup program in Driver1-3.IMG. Running from floppy or from a separate directory on the local drive produces the same result.

Ok, I'll have to see if I can make images of my original disks.

That will be much appreciated, cyclone3d! My CD drive itself seems to have near-catastrophic issues (each new reading error more fun than the one before), but if this results in reasonable sound, at least in windows, I will be quite happy, especially given that OPLxLPT are constantly out of stock and compatible PCMCIA cards are exorbitant on ebay.
Maybe it could be a DIY project to make a compact stand-alone enclosure for just the sound board without the rest of the monstrosity...