Orchid Wavebooster 4fx daughterboard

[Silent Loon]

Hello, I'm new to this forum and would like to know, if somebody owns this card: Orchid Wavebooster 4fx

( http://wavetable.web.fc2.com/orchid_4fx.htm )

It's a DREAM based wavetable daughterboard. I have the card, but not the dos utility, that is described in the owners manual:

http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Micronics/manuals/wbooster.pdf (Page 18, BSTDOS.EXE)

Has somebody also this utility? It allows you to configure the daughter board in dos, choosing mode (GM, MT-32 and variations) drum kit, effects a.s.o. It's likely that especially the MT-32 emulation is crap, but I'm eager to test it anyway.

Thanks in advance

[jharris01]

Apparently they were bought by Diamond Multimedia (I guess you already know this). You might want to try accessing their ftp site ftp.diamondmm.com. I wasn't able to log in anonymously but maybe you will have better luck. I was able to find a mirror http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Hardware/Diamond/Legacy-Orchid/AUDIO/ but unfortunately it doesn't have the Wavebooster drivers. I also found this site:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/d8ahgs

It points to "www.treiber-archiv.de" (google translated). Has a file named "orchid_wavebooster_win95_v2-0.zip" but it asks you to pay for a subscription before downloading. If it's a fraud or not I don't know.

According the the Internet WayBack machine the original driver filename is "!WB.EXE". Seems to be is a self-extracting ZIP file about 874KB. Searching for it doesn't bring anything useful though.

Just out of curiosity if you do find the file let us know. Good luck!