16 bit Tomato board SCV6 Creative Labs VIBRA16X ISA Sound Audio Card

16 bit Tomato board SCV6 Creative Labs VIBRA16X ISA Sound Audio Card - is what exactly ?

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First post, by Vipersan

Posted on 2018-05-06, 10:38

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I rather think I have something useless to me ..
but I'm hoping not.
Basically I wanted to use this in T3200SX just running DOS 6.2
but I can find little information ..nor specific drivers etc.
Someone must know what exactly this ISA card is ?
From what little info I have found so far ..it looks like a custom creative card which is designed to work in a specific 'Tomato' motherboard..
the following was copied from an Ebay add ..
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Vintage 16 bit Tomato board Creative Labs VIBRA16X ISA Sound Audio Card
model: SCV6 Ver. 1.00

Pay attention: The sound card is designed to work in motherboards ZIDA Tomato Board. With which it is connected by a flexible ribbon cable. I (unfortunately) was not able to find in the Internet the model of the motherboard which the sound card is working. So checked the motherboard Acorp. For testing I used a connector to connect on a special ISA Board (see last photo). Special ISA Board in the kit is not for sale! Without a connected flexible ribbon cable your sound card is NOT WORKING!!!
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So ..I'm guessing trying to make this work in my T3200SX is basically a pointless task.
anyone ?

Reply 1 of 4, by JidaiGeki

Posted on 2018-05-06, 11:01

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With a little digging, it seems that the connector is known as "TB-LINK" (Tomato Blaster-Link?) and is available on (at least) the Zida 5DLX board. If what he says is true, then you wouldn't be able to use it in your Toshiba without a special ISA card.

The manual for the motherboard with TB-LINK is here - http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/zida/manuals/5dlx0100.zip

Reply 2 of 4, by Vipersan

Posted on 2018-05-06, 11:07

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JidaiGeki wrote:
With a little digging, it seems that the connector is known as "TB-LINK" (Tomato Blaster-Link?) and is available on (at least) the Zida 5DLX board. If what he says is true, then you wouldn't be able to use it in your Toshiba without a special ISA card.

The manual for the motherboard with TB-LINK is here - http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/zida/manuals/5dlx0100.zip

Much as I suspected ...
gratefull thanks ..
I'll stop trying now.
I guess it pays to research before purchase.
you live and learn..
😉

Reply 3 of 4, by _StIwY_

Posted on 2023-08-31, 10:30

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Hello, today i got a couple of those weird "Tomato SCV6" cards with visible Creative Vibra16X chip, included the CD drivers, i could make an .ISO copy. Still have to test the cards tho, never heard of these!

Reply 4 of 4, by HBGOK

Posted on 2025-05-10, 10:13

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_StIwY_ wrote on 2023-08-31, 10:30:

Hello, today i got a couple of those weird "Tomato SCV6" cards with visible Creative Vibra16X chip, included the CD drivers, i could make an .ISO copy. Still have to test the cards tho, never heard of these!

Hi, sorry to dig up an old topic, I recently bought one of these sound cards (SCV6 ver 1.0) and I'm looking for information about it, can you create an iso image of the driver disk you mentioned? Have you had any success getting this card to work in a "normal" computer? Thanks in advance 😀

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