Welcome to the MK1869 Sound Card page!

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What is it?

MK1869 is an ISA Sound Card based on the ESS ES1869 sound controller chip with onboard wavetable synth based on the ES690 DSP.

The card is still in development and more info can be found at this VOGONS thread.


The card's main features are:

	AdLib, Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster PRO compatible for DOS (with SB ADPCM support)
	Windows drivers with up to 48khz sampling rate
	High-quality, OPL3 superset ESFM music synthesizer
	MIDI port - compatible with MPU-401 UART mode
	Integrated Spatializer 3-D audio effects processor
	Integrated dual game port
	16-bit stereo ADC and DAC
	Programmable independent sample rates from 4 kHz to 48.0 kHz for record and playback
	Full-Duplex operation for simultaneous record and playback
	Single chip, high performance wavetable synthesizer with 32-voice polyphony
	Chorus and reverb effects
	16bit 44.1 khz playback
	1 MByte General Midi instrument set - 128 melodic and 47 rythm instruments

More information and downloads will be added when the card reaches final state and is ready to produce.
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Please check out our other retropc projects: PCMIDI , Orpheus II soundcard , MegaCard

last update: 06-09-2024 , always a WIP