Offer: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Card "collection"

Pontus wrote: I normally don't toss around the term "rare", but that card is rare. It was Creative's original competitor to the Adlib and was marketed as such (Creative Music System, as the Adlib was originally marketed as a music card and not a gaming card). Radio Shack realized it might sell better as a gaming card and sold it as the Game Blaster with a bundled game that supported it, and a year later Creative finally realized that the best way to compete with Adlib was to completely plagiarize it as the Sound Blaster. As for what it could do, it is two Phillips SAA1099 chips ganged together to produce 12 stereo sine waves with two noise channels. Compared to the 2-operator FM synthesis of Adlib, it was a complete joke. Imagine the cacophony of four PCjrs squawking in stereo and you've got a good idea of what the CMS sounded like. Original Sound Blasters are uncommon; the Creative Music System/Game Blaster card is rare. I have one of each release including packaging; it took me over 1.5 decades to get them. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/