ESS ES688/968/1868/1869 ISA Sound Card

Name: ESS ES688/968/1868/1869 ISA Sound Card
SKU: 36826
Price: 44.00 USD
Availability: InStock

ESS AudioDrive ISA Sound Cards are some of the best Sound Blaster clone cards.

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ESS AudioDrive ISA Sound Cards are some of the best Sound Blaster clone cards.

What is it? ESS AudioDrive ISA Sound Cards are some of the best Sound Blaster clone cards. The chipset is highly integrated and the ES1868F for example offers Sound Blaster Pro 2 compatibility, has m…

What is it?

ESS AudioDrive ISA Sound Cards are some of the best Sound Blaster clone cards. The chipset is highly integrated and the ES1868F for example offers Sound Blaster Pro 2 compatibility, has mixer inputs for line-in, microphone, CD and wavetable and is a really quiet card. Most cards also have an IDE connector for an optical drive, which can be very useful in machines with just a single IDE channel.

Why did you make it?

The card has jumpers to enable / disable an amplifier. For powered speakers or going into an external amplifier it is recommended to disable the onboard amplifier.

What makes it special?

The DOS software is beginner friendly, just run INSTALL and you get asked a few questions. The program than updates your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. The entries made are easy to read, understand and modify. For example if you later want to change the interrupt or a mixer setting, just edit AUTOEXEC.BAT.