Multimedia Kits

[Fudzy]

Most commonly made by Creative, my first one was done by Olive Computers though. CD-ROM drives were proprietary back then and plugged into the soundcard. The kits usually came with speakers and a COMPLETE (Holy cow! How do they fit it all on there?!?!?) Encyclopedia CD.

I remember impressing many with the FMV of a fish eagle catching a fish, or the demise of the Hindenberg.

[AstroTurf]

lol, or putting the moon on a different axis.

[Gory51]

the very first "Soundblaster" as they called it ;)

[Fudzy]

the very first "Soundblaster" as they called it ;)

No it wasn't though before these kits most people had midi cards. Does anyone remember that parrot app that came with the original SB?

[Gory51]

Yes sorry that is exactly the thing I was remembering. You got a CD-ROM with all these wav files. It was digital sound and a huge step up from previous midi.

I vaguely remember the parot thing though

[kilobits]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5100/5476345840_a9ddf102d0.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bgc3OtxUqaQ/TfCHC-9GjMI/AAAAAAAAB6I/V5vkB85aRe8/pac.jpg

[kilobits]

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/picture/prody.jpg

[Sinbad]

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/picture/prody.jpg

No that wasnt it. There was an app with a little animated parrot that listened to what you said on the mic, then repeated it slightly distorted...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0F5AjHP7E&feature=youtube_gdata_player


There was also Dr Sbaitso!

[kilobits]

No that wasnt it. There was an app with a little animated parrot that listened to what you said on the mic, then repeated it slightly distorted...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0F5AjHP7E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

There was also Dr Sbaitso!

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/picture/parrot.jpg

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/picture/blasterback.jpg

[fonoi]

Haha , I remember buying one at Incredible corruption for 2.5k. It had an external cd writer 4x, speakers, sound card and about 20 odd cd's.

[Dolby]

I hated buying games etc and bringing them home .... that blue screen setup, IRQ, memory issues - nothing ever worked for me :/

[absynth]

My 1st one was a Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE32 with Quad Core CDRom.

[Lupus]

My first was with a Soundblaster Pro, Creative Labs dual speed with 7th Guest, Encarta and some other stuff.

[absynth]

I still have the 7th Guest and it works through Dosbox.

[Fudzy]

I got Return to Zork with mine. I'm scared to play it again as the fond memories will be replaced by criticism of how dated it looks.

[antstrydom]

My 1st one was a Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE32 with Quad Core CDRom.

And it cost approximately R2k

My pentium 133mhz cost about R13k with an hp printer.

[kilobits]

My 1st one was a Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE32 with Quad Core CDRom.

Ooooh... you were lucky. You could add extra RAM to those AWE cards for the midi-sound fonts.

I had some crappy Sound Galaxy card and a 1x CD-ROM. I also had to put the discs in a caddy like thing before the drive could be used.

I also remember the Infra-Drives with remote control... woohoo.

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/picture/infra1.jpg

[Sinbad]

My 1st one was a Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE32 with Quad Core CDRom.

Seriaaaaas? ;)