Found some old PC cards during a clear out - including an Ensoniq Sound Card

Ravenger · 6 Mar 2021 at 17:10

I've been clearing out some junk in my house, and came across some PC cards which some people on here might be interested in. None of these cards have been tested - In particular I have no way to test an ISA card.

ISA Ensoniq sound card.
I think this card is pretty rare - a working one is on sale for £250 on ebay, but as it's not tested I'm not sure about putting it on ebay.

A couple of Dlink ethernet PCI cards. Free to anyone who wants them.

A PCI Firewire card, again free if anyone wants it.

A CH Products gamecard 3 dual gameport ISA card. Haven't seen one of these in years! Pretty much redundant when USB came along, but was necessary back in the old days for flight yokes and throttles or two player games with two controllers.

almoststew1990 · 6 Mar 2021 at 18:47

To be honest that sound card doesn't look to be anything special - does it have a real OPL3 chip? Does it have a built in wavetable or something? I would check the sold prices of the exact model on eBay, the £250 person is probably just chancing it or doesn't really know what makes a sound card valuable!

This is until the other retro guys come along and tell us that the card is really good for some other reason!

Ravenger · 6 Mar 2021 at 19:03

I know for a fact it's a proper wavetable card. It's one of the soundscape models, but it doesn't say which one on the board.

LewisRaz · 6 Mar 2021 at 19:04

almoststew1990 said:
To be honest that sound card doesn't look to be anything special - does it have a real OPL3 chip? Does it have a built in wavetable or something? I would check the sold prices of the exact model on eBay, the £250 person is probably just chancing it or doesn't really know what makes a sound card valuable!

This is until the other retro guys come along and tell us that the card is really good for some other reason!

Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000

Very compatible card with wavetable built in

cee-S-dee · 6 Mar 2021 at 23:58

That ensoniq is nice. They are prone to capacitor leak though but I'd certainly be interested in it in some way if it was to become available

Ravenger · 7 Mar 2021 at 10:05

cee-S-dee said:
That ensoniq is nice. They are prone to capacitor leak though but I'd certainly be interested in it in some way if it was to become available

Well I have no use for it. It's definitely available.

cee-S-dee · 7 Mar 2021 at 12:11

Ravenger said:
Well I have no use for it. It's definitely available.

Let me know, I'll be happy to give it a nice home :-)

Would fit nice in my 486!

cee-S-dee · 9 Mar 2021 at 12:36

@Ravenger I tried to start a conversation with you but it won't allow me.

Ravenger · 9 Mar 2021 at 15:58

cee-S-dee said:
@Ravenger I tried to start a conversation with you but it won't allow me.

Strange

I'll try to get in touch later, when I'm not working.