Hardware assistance
 

I have (finally) found a person who has an old (i think) soundcard.What i need from you guys is to tell me wether it's compatible with old games (92-98 ) or not.I have searched the internet, but all i could find were general specs.The product name is :

ESS 1868

All i need to know is if it supports old dos(& windows 98 ) games.

No. No bug. You see an 8 alone does not do anything, but when you put a ) behind it... things start to happen and you will get a 8)

8 + ) = 8)

ok, that makes sense, but what about the audio card?? That's what i'm interested about.

This soundcard i believe that comes from the era that soundblaster wasn't the standard yet... Back then there were many different sound cards ( Gravis, Adlib, Roland, Soundblaster etc )and each one was incompatible with the other. Yours i believe that it is a Enqosonic but i am not sure. Anyway, i am sure that it is a card from the DOS era, but in that case the problem is with every game indivintually - i mean that the game must support the card.

i know, that's why i'm asking you guys-to find out if the games from that time support this card

the card does it have anything printed on it? Except its model number, does it say manufacturer, date, etc?

Well i haven't bought the card yet, so i will ask the vendor

yes, you should do that. And ask and the year of manufacture of course. From a simple model number i can't tell what it supports.... :)

okay, i'll get back to you when i reach him.Watch this topic

maybe this?
 

hmm maybe this is the drivers you are looking for. The soundcard is from around 1995-1996.

http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/34/34439.htm

It is a old soundcard, since it have a IDE port on it to, to support a cdrom drive.

Really have no clue if this card have any sound blaster compatible mode, or similar.

my suggestion is to try buy maybe a Sound blaster 16, or sound blaster awe64 isa soundcard.

If you do find a sound blaster awe 64 Value/gold isa card, i could mail you my startupfiles, with all the drivers needed, to get cdrom/mouse/soundcard/ ect. to work.


My old system is:

Pentium-S 133Mhz
64mb edo ram.
intel motherboard.
2x or 4x toshiba cdrom drive.
850mb conner harddrive.
trident pci 9680-1 graphic card.
creative sound blaster awe 64 value isa soundcard.