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First post, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2013-02-18, 18:42

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I found one of these at the recycle center. I know it's not the best Ensoniq board, but I'm curious to hear it. Does anyone know if it will work in an 8-bit ISA slot, and (more importantly) on an 8086? I'd rather not muck around with my 386 system too much, but I have a Tandy it'd be nice to get a proper sound card in.

Also, is the driver for this on the Vogons driver archive? There's a big ESS collection, but it only refers to them by model number, and that doesn't seem to be printed anywhere on the board.

Reply 1 of 5, by swaaye

Posted on 2013-02-18, 19:13

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I doubt it will work in an 8-bit slot. But unlike VIVO / MARK5, OPUS cards do not need EMM386.

ESS is not Ensoniq, although I was once confused by that too. You can find the drivers here. Soundscape drivers work on the Soundscape OPUS card. You want the Windows 3.1 pack.
http://www.creative.com/emu/support/downloads/legacy/

There may be a DOS-only zip file around somewhere too. The Win9x drivers separately install a DOS folder and firmware files.

Reply 2 of 5, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2013-02-19, 21:50

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Yargh, it refuses to install in a system without the card installed, and I can't find an extractor that can handle that version of InstallShield archives...guess I'll have to stick it in my Win95 box first.

Reply 3 of 5, by swaaye

Posted on 2013-02-19, 23:05

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I found my archive of the DOS driver.

There is a problem though - sndscape.ini is configured for the OTTO/Sequoia cards and the OPUS cards use different IO addresses which I don't know offhand.

This also reminds me that the OPUS card is PNP. This seems unlikely to work in an XT...

Attachments

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SNDSCAPE.zip

File size

377.7 KiB

Downloads

107 downloads

File license

Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 4 of 5, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2013-02-20, 06:08

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And I just saw the information on the address somewhere, too...

...well, I'll give it a shot and see if I can't figure it out. Thanks.

Reply 5 of 5, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2013-02-20, 22:11

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I can't seem to find any information on the OPUS base address, and SSINIT won't detect it. Any idea what it's supposed to be set to?

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