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Best PCI sound card for dos/win3.1

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First post, by dionb

Posted on 2018-09-21, 20:14

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Not too sure about 3.x specifically, but as for DOS you have a few choices. Question is whether you have a PC/PCI connector on your motherboard.

If so, you have a wide range of choices, with the Yamaha XG (744-based) cards probably being the best bet.

If not (more likely) you need a card that does some trickery in a TSR driver. In that case, look for things like the Aureal Vortex, Ensoniq ES137x (SB PCI 16/64/128) or ESS Solo-1 chipsets.

Reply 1 of 4, by canthearu

Posted on 2018-09-22, 02:54

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ESS Solo-1 is a good option.

I had that running for a bit on windows 3.1

Reply 2 of 4, by canthearu

Posted on 2018-09-22, 14:04

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Sb live doesn't have drivers for windows 3.1

Reply 3 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2018-09-23, 12:47

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I think the original Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 have W3x drivers available, though not the 1371 and later (i.e. SBPCI128)

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Reply 4 of 4, by dionb

Posted on 2018-09-24, 11:46

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mr tibs wrote:
PC/PCI connector ? You mean SB link?

"SB-Link" is Creative's name for it. As Soundblaster is a trademark, the rest of the industry called it PC/PCI.

Given that Creative themselves stopped using their SB-Link almost as soon as the introduced it, I'm using the far commoner name used by vendors who did keep implementing it for at least a short period.

For more info:
https://ilovepa.ws/2017/06/27/motherboards-with-pc-pci/

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