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PCI Sound Cards with OPL3 and MIDI Port?

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First post, by fargo

Posted on 2021-07-26, 14:58

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What PCI sound card do you guys recommend for my Athlon 1GHz PC? Is there a PCI card with OPL3 chip and joystick/midi port?

Reply 1 of 6, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2021-07-26, 15:02

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Yamaha YMF724 or 744.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64
PC#2: Celeron 466 / Abit ZM6 / Voodoo3 / AWE64 Gold / YMF744 / SC-155
PC#3: AthlonXP 1700+ / Abit KT7A / GeForce4 / SBLive / ALS100
PC#4: Athlon64 3700+ / DFI LanParty / 9600GT / X-Fi Titanium

Reply 2 of 6, by fargo

Posted on 2021-07-26, 23:00

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-07-26, 15:02:

Yamaha YMF724 or 744.

Thank you.

I'm wondering what if I give up on OPL3 and go for a card with wavetable header instead?

Reply 3 of 6, by Pierre32

Posted on 2021-07-26, 23:08

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fargo wrote on 2021-07-26, 23:00:

I'm wondering what if I give up on OPL3 and go for a card with wavetable header instead?

Or keep the OPL3 and add some CHiLL!

https://www.serdashop.com/website/index.php?S … 93eac6972b1fdc4

Reply 4 of 6, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2021-07-27, 02:06

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Don't forget YMF754.

Yamaha YMF modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG resource repository - updated November 27, 2018
Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide
AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header

Reply 5 of 6, by fargo

Posted on 2021-07-27, 02:49

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Thank you guys.

I got YMF724. The 744 and 754 have 4 sound channels instead of 2 and other features that I'm not interested in. They are also much more expensive than 724 on ebay currently.

Reply 6 of 6, by LightStruk

Posted on 2021-07-28, 02:55

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The YMF7x4 cards have wavetable MIDI support in their Windows drivers. Not any help in pure DOS, but it works fine in DOS games in Windows 98 SE.

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