IT WORKS!!

ALL I had to do was install windows 95, and the realmagic drivers vetz gave me. Win 98 wouldnt ever work it seems, so I tried win 3.11 and kept getting errors about screen resolution (couldnt find drivers up to date), after babasha pointed me in the right direction with the Win95 reference. So I decided to upgrade to win95 and voila!! Its perfect!!

Thank you all so very very much, I honestly thought it was never going to work and I'd wasted my money.

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-10, 04:09:

IT WORKS!!

ALL I had to do was install windows 95, and the realmagic drivers vetz gave me. Win 98 wouldnt ever work it seems, so I tried win 3.11 and kept getting errors about screen resolution (couldnt find drivers up to date), after babasha pointed me in the right direction with the Win95 reference. So I decided to upgrade to win95 and voila!! Its perfect!!

Thank you all so very very much, I honestly thought it was never going to work and I'd wasted my money.

Pls send us photo how it works) screenshots of original player

Very good that you got it working!

As Babasha says, would be awesome with some screenshots of the mpeg player in action.

Nice find!
It's also common that laptops with two pcmcia/cardbus slots have only one those being ZV compatible.

Hi, I have a NoteWorthy ZV Port/MPEG-1 NWZVMPEG1 PCMCIA card with the original install floppy but I'm unable to make it works on Windows 95. When I insert the card, Windows is unable to find drivers, it says there is no drivers in the floppy (even after having run Setup from the original floppy). I tried to download all archives provided in that thread but I got the same result each time, no driver found. I tried in several computers (Toshiba T1900 series, Toshiba T4850CT), all under Windows 95 (some original W95 edition, some W95C edition). Do you know how I can get that card working ? Thank you.

vbug wrote on 2026-03-07, 10:59:

Hi, I have a NoteWorthy ZV Port/MPEG-1 NWZVMPEG1 PCMCIA card with the original install floppy but I'm unable to make it works on Windows 95. When I insert the card, Windows is unable to find drivers, it says there is no drivers in the floppy (even after having run Setup from the original floppy). I tried to download all archives provided in that thread but I got the same result each time, no driver found. I tried in several computers (Toshiba T1900 series, Toshiba T4850CT), all under Windows 95 (some original W95 edition, some W95C edition). Do you know how I can get that card working ? Thank you.

Pla upload photo of your card and content of floppy disk here.

Here is the original floppy

Your floppy seems to be missing the .inf file, try manually choosing it from the archive vetz posted here in the Windows new hardware detected dialog.

Re: Toshiba Advanced PCMCIA MPEG 1 ZV Decoder Card

And thanks for the box pictures.

Thank you, I was able to select the target .inf file as the card driver and it seems installed now, but when trying to launch the demo CD provided ("Realmagic Interactive Demo CD") or when trying to open an MPG file with the provided media player I get those messages :

"Use a lower resolution in order to use MPEG playback card..." -> I'm on 640x480x256c
"MMSYSTEM296 The file cannot be played on the specified MCI device. The file may be corrupt, or not in the correct format."
(I get that one twice in succession) "MMSYSTEM257 Invalid MCI device ID. Use the ID returned when opening the MCI device."

Hera are my MCI configurations and my System.ini and Win.ini files and a screenshots of the installation folder content

I looked at the specs of the laptops you mentioned, T1900 (486sx20) and T4850 (486dx4/75), they're too old to have a ZV compatible port, sorry.

You'll need a first gen Pentium for those cards.

Oh too bad ! but what's the point of an MPEG card, as a Pentium generation CPU should able to play it smoothly ?

Late 1st gen Pentium maybe, but the older ones like 75/100/120MHz, are they fast enough?

And also, those cards can be used with interactive RealMagic mpeg software, as the box says.

I'm curious, what's on the demo disc?

On the demo disk there is mostly mpeg files (probably from video games, tv show, music clips, misc), some BMP, and it looks like there is also a game but I didn't tested it.