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First post, by slaeshjag

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Greetings,

A while back, I scored an old Orchid Sound Producer Pro on ebay, which I'm finally getting around to testing.

After snipping off a tantalum cap off the -12v rail that I'm intending to replace, it no longer shorts out my power supply.

The person I bought it from did not have any driver disks to ship with it, and neither does todays internet it seems. I can find references and download links to the files on the wayback machine, but as always, it doesn't have the files... I have been fruitless in my search of these files based on filename.

Since it claims to be soundblaster pro 2.0 compatible, I tried the soundblaster pro drivers, which promptly refused to work with the card. I had no luck getting WFW 3.1's soundblaster 1.x drivers to work with the card either.

I have gotten the midi-mapper in windows to use the the adlib functionality, so the card isn't completely dead anyway...

Any ideas of what to try in order to get the card running? Anyone happen to have the drivers rotting away on some floppies somewhere?

Last edited by slaeshjag on 2018-10-28, 21:00. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 4, by cyclone3d

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Looks like it is a rebadged Aztech card.
This driver may work.. found it as a download for the Sound Producer Pro:

The attachment p1633d-1.zip is no longer available

If you could post pics of the card, that would help.

Edit:
Found the manual. It is most definitely a rebadged Aztech card. Unsure if the driver I posted above is the correct one though. Let us know either way.
Manual:

The attachment Sound_Producer_Pro_7226588.pdf is no longer available

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

Reply 2 of 4, by slaeshjag

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After fighting some with ISA Plug and Fail, freeing up enough conventional memory (DOS 4.01 + windows for workgroups = bleh), it seems this is not the correct driver. I got the installer to pass the PnP manager test, after which it complained about not finding the 16-bit soundcard, which makes sense since this is not a 16-bit soundcard.

I did take a picture of the board, but the chip numbers are blocked by stickers that I'm hesitant to remove. Attached picture for completeness sake.

Reply 4 of 4, by slaeshjag

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Yep, that did the trick. Thank you very much!