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Summary: Doesn't Work with XP
Review: Drivers don't appear to exist for Windows XP. Card doesn't work.
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Summary: It might work for you...
Review: I have several computers at home and this card worked beautifully on my old Windows 98 machine. (Works with Linux too I hear) Along with FM, It's pulls AM stations and has support for RBDS/RDS (Radio Broadcasting Data System). Two features that are rare in the PC radio card underworld. Basically RBDS/RDS means that the card can interpret additional data that radio stations transmit along with their radio signals. So you are presented with the title and artist of a song that is currently playing. The card also allows you to sync your computer's clock to the time that the radio station has. This comes in handy as the card software will allow you to schedule up to 25 events for recording. So you can capture radio programs to your hard drive for later review. It's strictly a PC radio receiver card which is nice also since it doesn't need an IRQ. BUT... You need a big hard drive to capture radio programs as the capture format is in WAV format only. Also the card is an ISA card which means that if your computer doesn't have a long black slot available inside ( in lieu of a short white one ) you can't use this. ISA slots are being phased out of the computer world. Also, I'm currently attempting to relocate this card on a Windows 2000 computer with some poor results. You see ADS tech does not fully support this card under Windows NT/2000. Although they do provide source code for an NT 4.0 device driver and a full programming interface (with documentation). How many people out there are really warm up to the idea of "building a monolithic device driver using the windows DDK"? (Heh! ..yeah ...Weehaa!) I still think it might be possible to get it to work for Win2k but I haven't found anyone who's done it yet. I've heard that their tech support stinks but I haven't tried them yet so that's just a rumor at this point.
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Summary: Cadet PC radio
Review: This is a great product and happens to be the only low cost, radio that I have found that receives both AM & FM. It also receives the digital station data transmitted from many stations.
The Windows interface incorporates a vcr like recoeding feature that allows you to schedule times for recoeding. Very COOL.
It doesn't even use an IRQ. YEAH!!!
I have not tried the Linux drivers/interface but I have found those to be as good or better than those found for the windows platform. I am still looking for a pci radio that receives AM & FM.
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Summary: Only works with 95 and 98
Review: This steaming turd doesn't work with anything above windows 98, a 5 year old operating system. I just wasted an evening finding this out. Why are they still selling this ?
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