I was wondering if anyone could help me locate a driver for this Parallel CD-Rom Drive i picked up. Is has an Ess1869f Sound card built in and i would like to track down the drivers for the sound part of the drive. I have the original floppy disks but they won't read for shit. I have downloaded the CD-Rom driver and it installed and worked fine. Just need the soundcard setup.
I've identified that the setup file is named bpsd203.exe but i can't track down a downloadable copy.
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
cyclone3dwrote 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 […] Show full quote
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
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
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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?
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...
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.
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...