First post, by andreja6
I've recently gotten an ESS Audiodrive 1868F sound card, and it has been functioning beautifully as a SB Pro II clone, with the minor issue of some games not even detecting SB compatibility...
Games such as Titus the fox and Ultima 6 don't play any music from the sound card but the PC Speaker (Ultima 6 always plays sound through that speaker).
However games like The Incredible Machine with known problems detecting sound blasters, detects and works fine with the Audiodrive.
I don't plan on replacing it, because when it works (which is 99.9% of the time), it sounds perfect. I had a Sound Blaster Live! with SB emulation, and that was so horrible it put me off creative sound cards that have anything to do with emulation (even SB16's that don't specify a true OPL3 chip)