These days Aztech cards are fairly rare, but look out for OEM variants that are more common - a lot were Packard-Bell branded so look for a black and white sticker on the main chip and it's likely it is an Aztech card. They were also very successful at striking up OEM deals to have their cards bundled with off-the-shelf computers. This one has a clone of the Yamaha YMF262 chip, called the LS262.Īztech went down a similar route as Creative Labs - to saturate the market with many model variants, but at a cheaper price point. The ALS100 supports Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, and Sound Blaster 16 standards. This means it is compatible with Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro and Windows Sound System standards. I will do a more in-depth review at some point on this card, but in short it's a post Ad Lib Gold-era card based around the Crystal CS4236-KQ chip. I noticed the Ad Lib musical note logo and did some background. This was from an online auction that came up where the card was not well described - just a part number. It came with the Amstrad PC2286 that we bought from a computer auction (Southern Computer Auctions?) in 1992.
This was the first sound card we had in our family. This catalogue is listed by manufacturer or if it's a lesser-known clone card it will be listed under the originating manufacturer of the reference design.įrom my Dad's Amstrad PC2286, bought around 1992 I have also included external synthesizer modules here, of which I have 5. With the advent of the PCI bus, sound cards that sat on it were addressed in a different way, thus making DOS games unable to even 'see' the sound card. This is because before Windows 95, all games interacted with the sound card via a specific I/O address, IRQ (interrupt request line) and DMA (direct memory access) channel.
Unlike the graphics cards, however, there is only one general rule when it comes to sound cards and being "period correct" for DOS - that they really need to be for the ISA bus. Just as I've done with graphics cards, I have acquired a small collection of sound cards since 1992 and currently have about 26 in all.
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