Advanced Gravis SoundCard- Needed to share

[Mortis]

Greetings... I come into work and find on my Desk an Advanced Gravis UltraSound GF-1 SoundCard from around '91 or '92. This thing is HUGE- It measures around 10 inches or so in length and about 5 inches in width, the pylex (plastic) is bright red and it is ISA.

A friend dropped it off to me as he knows I like checking out older technology and playing with it- he left a note saying it was TopOfTheLine in its day... I look forward to playing with it and possibly even throwing it in a box and loading drivers... assuming I can find drivers. I have never heard of this Card or Manufacturer so it is quite a prize to me... LOL.

Just had to share- dont know if others get the same kick out of older, top end then, stuff. Has anyone who has been around the Technology Block ever had one of these or remember them?

Hehe.

Mortis

[jadison]

Cool...that's the 1st time I ever heard of that sound card although I'm very familiar with the company. I have a joystick from Gravis.

BTW, here's a little history on what you have: (courtesy of the GF1 Museum (http://paranoia.tuug.fi/gf1/cards.html))

The Gravis Ultrasound (which was later referred to as 'Ultrasound Classic') was the first ever consumer soundcard to offer wavetable synthesis with full 32-voice polyphony. The earlier board revisions (pre-3.7) didn't have mixing abilities, so global volume had to be adjusted by scaling the GF1 voice volumes independently. Board revisions 3.7 and above included the ICS2101 mixer chip, which is small SOIC package near the GF1 PLCC socket. The GF1 also lacked the ability to sample audio with 16-bit resolution, so Gravis sold a separate 16-bit sampling daughtercard which connected to the long row of pins right above the ISA connector edge. The daughtercards were rather rare and their installation was troublesome due to to several jumpers that had to be altered to route all audio inputs and outputs to the Crystal CS4231 codec on the daughtercard.

And, courtesy of our partner: HWDrivers (http://www.hwdrivers.com) here are the drivers to the card you have:

Click Me (http://ftp.gravis.com/Public/Sound/Drivers/Ace/GF195V11.ZIP) - 720Kb (1/27/95)

Click Me for beta Win95 drivers (http://ftp.gravis.com/Public/Sound/Drivers/GUS&Max/GF195B12.ZIP) - 722Kb (5/16/97)

Main Driver Page (http://www.gravis.com/support/sup_1058.html)

[Mortis]

Awesome, Thanks Jadison! This card is the 2.2 revision and unfortunatly, I dont have the daughter card.

Now, to find a box to put it in and see how it sounds...

Mortis

[smokin]

LOL
I just pulled one of those out of a 486. Rev 3.4 though

they work pretty good for what they are.
:)