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First post, by dr.zeissler

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Hi,

due to the lack of 8/16Bit slots on old machines I thoght about ISA-Cards with more functions on one PCB.
Is it true that there were e.g. a 16Bit ISA-Card with "Graphics" and "Sound" on one PCB?

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Reply 2 of 10, by shock__

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Most soundcards have an integrated joystick/midi port as that used to be 2 individual cards at the very beginning 😉
PAS cards also are sound + scsi cards.

Slightly offtopic:
My ARGUS project has an integrated -5V feedback to the ISA bus as well as headers for a bus expander.

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Reply 3 of 10, by DonutKing

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There are also IO/IDE controllers with VGA as well, but the ones I've seen were VESA local bus not ISA.

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Reply 4 of 10, by HighTreason

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Packard Bell used to have these crappy Aztech sound cards with a Rockwell (?) modem on them. Notoriously picky about drivers.

Various companies made video cards which technically had a separate MPEG decoder or AVI Scaler and capture device onboard, though many were PCI. The QuickWorks 24i has an ET4000, a ViPer (Scaler) and capture capabilities, as well as a fused power supply for some external device.

Do ISA SBCs count?

Technically, you could put as many things as you wanted on an ISA card due to the interface being parallel, at least, within the power limitations of the slot.

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Reply 5 of 10, by idspispopd

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DonutKing wrote:

There are also IO/IDE controllers with VGA as well, but the ones I've seen were VESA local bus not ISA.

I have seen such a card on ISA. Oak VGA chip, unfortunately.

Reply 6 of 10, by jesolo

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Many sound cards came out initially with proprietary interfaces for different CD-ROM drive manufacturers (Sony, Panasonic, Mitsumi).
As this became more standardised, they later put an IDE interface on the sound card that you could connect your CD-ROM drive to.
However, I wouldn't try to connect your hard drive or any similar storage device to your sound card's IDE interface 🤣 .

Reply 7 of 10, by dr.zeissler

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The target is a 286/10 currently:

- EGA (onboard)
- ISA1 16/16 NetworkCard
- ISA2 16/08 MPU401i Card
- ISA3 08/08 CT1350b with CMS Chips
- ISA4 16/16 SCSI Controller BT542

If I could put a EGA/VGA CombiCard with 9/15 Pin-Out into it.
I need to consolidate the other Cards.

Perhaps a ET4000 EGA/VGA with a SB 2.0 would be nice.

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Last edited by dr.zeissler on 2015-06-10, 15:26. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 8 of 10, by shock__

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PAS8 + softMPU = SCSI & MPU401i on 1 card would be my recommendation, quite hard to come by tho.

If you don't need the CMS support (as indicated in your wish to use an ET4000 (do those even exist for 8bit systems?) + SB 2.0 as those are extremely unlikely to come with CMS support) you could also toss the SB 2.0

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Reply 9 of 10, by dr.zeissler

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SoftMpu with 286/10?

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