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, CT1320A, was released in 1989. First generation Sound Blasters, 8-bit ISA & MCA cards Sound Blaster 1.0, CT1320A Sound Blaster 1.0 Date invented Creative did not change any of the labeling or program names on the disks that came with the Game Blaster, but 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. Game BlasterĪ year later, in 1988, Creative marketed the C/MS via Radio Shack under the name Game Blaster. Presumably, this DSP could be used to automate some of the sound operations, like envelope control. Surprisingly, the board also contained a large 40-pin PGA (Creative Technology Programmable Logic) integrated circuit, bearing a CT 1302A CTPL 8708 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 sheets 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 circuits were featured earlier in various popular electronics magazines around the world.
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It contained two Philips SAA 1099 circuits, which, together, provided 12 voices of square-wave bee-in-a-box stereo sound plus some noise channels. The history of Creative sound cards started with the release of the Creative Music System ("C/MS") board in August 1987.
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