What was your favorite ISA card?

[thop]

i'm with dparadis. theoretically you could configure ISA to anything the jumper allowed to do but some cards like the soundblaster pro(?) did only run smooth with the famous I/O 220, INT 5, DMA 1. same goes for many other cards, it took hours to figure out a setting the card actually liked.
and don't make me start about configuration of DOS games where it asked you for the settings of every frickin card
it was a mess, really.

[Evildead666]

Yamaha OPL-SAX, still works, and still runs.
Good old stereo.

Were there any Mono sound cards out?

[VJ]

Weren't the adlib-cards mono ? Or some of the very early Soundblasters (8 bit) ?

Jörg

[Tempest]

Originally posted by VJ
Weren't the adlib-cards mono ? Or some of the very early Soundblasters (8 bit) ?

For those that read German, here are specs for the older SoundBlasters: http://www.tarigon.de/tramp/sblaster.html

I've still got a working SoundBlaster 1.5 - my first sound card. Made the AdLib folks envious because it had real digitized sound instead of that "fuzz generator" in AdLib. Both were mono though...

Edit: I think my persona has been greatly influenced by Dr. Sbaitso, the therapist software supplied with the SB...

[MetalCartman]

*LOL*


I remember having lots of fun with Dr. Sbaitso!

Cheers

[Sasq]

Lol, so do I, but it was better drunk or....

[UtwigMU]

My favourite ISA card is my US Robotics Sportster V90 Faxmodem.

Poisting this on it.

[DirtFarmer]

Jumpers=good??

Originally posted by RichL
I'm with Wombat on that score.
The really cool thing about ISA was that you could change a few jumpers or flash the eprom and tell the card it WAS using IRQ x, DMA x and Memory address of X, rather than letting Windows screw around with PnP and try to put seven cards on the same IRQ, then decide that five of them wouldnt work and not let you change anything.

Agreed. It just got a little hairy servicing the PC's with mulit-io boards that had 15 poorly labled jumpers and no manual, no website, and no hope setting things to default after the customer mucked around with them.

I haven't noticed anybody's favorite ISA board being anything to do with these multi-IO monsters.

Otherwise with ISA you could always put things "in there place" and not have to deal with the initial "Plug and Pray" nightmares.

Nobody should have been running Windows95 on a 386-SX16 anyways, but I do remember see it.

[bsdgeek]

The good Doctor Sbaitso kept getting angry at me.