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Media vision Spectrum sound card—worth rescuing?

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Reply 60 of 62, by cyclone3d

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Marmes wrote on Today, 10:59:
After a small examination to this card here's what I got: The design is very similar to Aztech Waverider 32+ Sound Card, no jump […]
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After a small examination to this card here's what I got:
The design is very similar to Aztech Waverider 32+ Sound Card, no jumpers to select addresses, nothing. All is made by the palce20v8 and 2 74LS245.
One of the ls245 with palce20v8 does the function of activating wavefront as described on datasheet, the other ls245 only deals with 2 data lines that go to palce20v8 SD0 and SD1.
We need to know the address that activates the chip. WFLITE software allows to input it manually.

The attachment AN_ICS2115.pdf is no longer available

Ooohhhh, that is the one document I had been looking for. Where were you able to find it? I'll try to get it tested in the next few days. The 80+ pages of info from the ChatGPT driver disassembly examination and that may get us to be able to config this card all the way.

Yamaha modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG repository
YMF7x4 Guide
Aopen AW744L II SB-LINK

Reply 61 of 62, by Marmes

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PRoblem is that wflite, wavetide sf32wav etc are all coded to the addresses of their supported cards. we still don't know which address MVlite uses. making some software and probing the addresses.

Reply 62 of 62, by Ozzuneoj

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keropi wrote on 2026-02-09, 08:46:
I have asked for help from a Korean buyer of pcmidi.eu stuff - maybe we can get the file through him, when I have some news I wi […]
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cyclone3d wrote on 2026-02-09, 07:41:
I found a Korean bulletin board that has the driver for this card. Problem is, access to the download is only available to membe […]
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I found a Korean bulletin board that has the driver for this card. Problem is, access to the download is only available to members and I am having trouble figuring out how to create an account or request an account:
https://lucyweb.net/bbs/board.php?bo_table=pd … wr_id=67&page=4
Name of the file is pawdrv.rar

Found the register page: https://lucyweb.net/bbs/register.php
HTTP_403
New membership registration is currently disabled.

Bah!

I have asked for help from a Korean buyer of pcmidi.eu stuff - maybe we can get the file through him, when I have some news I will report back 😀

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got a reply back, the site is not accepting registrations and there is no way to get the file even if you are located in Korea
probably this BBS site is just dead at this point
he will ask on Korean retro-forums in case someone has this or the original drivers archived...

Just curious keropi, but did this Korean acquaintance of yours ever get back to you regarding any posts on Korean forums?

I also wonder if there is any way to contact whoever uploaded the file on that page. If they bothered to upload it they probably still have it.

Since that page is dated less than 10 years ago, I feel like it's a lot more likely to lead us to the files than, for example, the 30 year old archived copy of the original MediaVision site that only had the driver for maybe one year before it was all gone. That was really not a big window for any data hoarders (of which there were far fewer back in 1997) to have grabbed it, and there is the very real possibility that the one or two people that did so may not even be alive or doing things online anymore. 😔

Also, this seems like an excellent place to ask, but it doesn't look like it's possible to make an account without submitting some really odd personal information such as full name, DOB and phone number? It says if the info doesn't match your ID then they can't verify your account. Very odd. Maybe this is normal in Korea? Anyway, I doubt I would be able to make an account since I'm in the US.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.