In addition to Game Blaster features, it had an 11-voice FM synthesizer using the Yamaha YM3812 chip, also known as OPL2. The Sound Blaster 1.0 (code named ' Killer Kard'), CT1320A, was released in 1989. Sound Blaster 1.0 (CT1320B) C/MS chips in sockets (labeled U14, U15) are seen. First generation Sound Blasters, 8-bit ISA & MCA cards Sound Blaster 1.0, CT1310, CT1320A, CT1320B In 2017 hobbyists developed a clone CT1300 PCB.

Whereas the C/MS package came with five floppy disks full of utilities and song files, Creative supplied only a single floppy with the basic utilities and game patches to allow Sierra Online's games using the Sierra Creative Interpreter engine to play music with the card and it also included a later revision of the game Silpheed that added C/MS support. This card was identical in every way to the precursor C/MS hardware. This chip allows software to automatically detect the card by certain register reads and writes.Ī year later, in 1988, Creative marketed the C/MS via Radio Shack under the name Game Blaster. Surprisingly, the board also contained a large 40-pin DIP integrated circuit, bearing a CT 1302A CTPL 8708 (Creative Technology Programmable Logic) serigraphed inscription and looking exactly like the DSP of the later Sound Blaster. On the C/MS board in particular, the Philips chips had white pieces of paper with a fantasy CMS-301 inscription on them: real Creative parts usually had consistent CT number references. The various integrated circuits had white or black paper stickers fully covering their top thus hiding their identity. For many years Creative tended to use off-the-shelf components and manufacturers' reference designs for their early products. These ICs were featured earlier in various popular electronics magazines around the world. It contained two Philips SAA1099 integrated circuits, which, together, provided 12 channels of square-wave 'bee-in-a-box' stereo sound, 4 channels of which can be used for noise. The history of Creative sound cards started with the release of the Creative Music System ('C/MS') CT-1300 board in August 1987.

11 Driver software modification (soft mod)Ĭreative Music System and Game Blaster Creative Music System.

7 Sixth generation Sound Blaster Sound Core3D cards.

6 Fifth generation Sound Blasters, PCI cards, multi-channel and F/X.

5 Fourth generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA cards, dynamic sample-based synthesis.

4 Third generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA cards.

3 Second-generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA & MCA cards.

2 First generation Sound Blasters, 8-bit ISA & MCA cards.

1 Creative Music System and Game Blaster.

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