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jamesperrett · 26th Nov 2017, 11:59 pm

I have a Pentium II Windows 98 machine which I keep meaning to resurrect because it has some interesting hardware in it, including an old Turtle Beach Multisound card, a Zefiro digital audio interface and a SCSI interface for 3 CD drives. The Multisound has an EMU Proteus synth onboard while the Zefiro card handles sub-code data like start ID's in the digital data stream which can be handy for DAT transfers. I think it may also have a Turtle Beach Maui sampler card in there as well.

It was quite an achievement to get these cards working in the same machine together at the time as you had to keep track of memory addresses, IO addresses and IRQ's used by each card.

Unfortunately these cards aren't really supported by newer NT style operating systems so Windows 98 is about as new as I can go.

26th Nov 2017, 11:59 pm	#14
jamesperrett Octode Join Date: May 2007 Location: Liss, Hampshire, UK. Posts: 1,873	Re: Old ISA soundcard I have a Pentium II Windows 98 machine which I keep meaning to resurrect because it has some interesting hardware in it, including an old Turtle Beach Multisound card, a Zefiro digital audio interface and a SCSI interface for 3 CD drives. The Multisound has an EMU Proteus synth onboard while the Zefiro card handles sub-code data like start ID's in the digital data stream which can be handy for DAT transfers. I think it may also have a Turtle Beach Maui sampler card in there as well. It was quite an achievement to get these cards working in the same machine together at the time as you had to keep track of memory addresses, IO addresses and IRQ's used by each card. Unfortunately these cards aren't really supported by newer NT style operating systems so Windows 98 is about as new as I can go.