Old SoundBlaster Kits/Bundles

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Do any of you remember the days when Creative sold those SoundBlaster "multimedia kits"?

I remember when we had a 486DX4/100 and my dad came home with this massive SoundBlaster AWE32 box. It came with that foot-long AWE32 ISA sound board inside, a "quad-speed" Sony CD-ROM (that plugged into the AWE32's on-board IDE interface), a mic, boxy-speakers (pretty decent ones, they still work!) and PLENTY of games on CD-ROM's...

Strike Commander CD, Syndicate Plus, Dune CD, Wing Commander II, Ultima VIII, Decent, Little Big Adventure...ag hordes of games. Oh, the challenge to get them all working in DOS with 640K memory...

Does anyone still have some of these bundled games around? The only thing I have left from that kit is the the mic and those speakers. Would love to play them again sometime...
 
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Must be specialist gamers that buy sound cards these days what with the modern day mobos and the built in sound cards.
 
milomak said:
Must be specialist gamers that buy sound cards these days what with the modern day mobos and the built in sound cards.
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No man, this was years go..1996 abouts. It was the stage when "multimedia" was all the rage and full-motion video was eye candy.
 
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Aw, those games ruled!
Infact, that was 1993 even 1994. I remember saving up a R1200 to buy one of thoset kits, walked into the shop as a lighty and put a wad of notes on the counter for it. Such a great day!

Getting them to work with Dos with no GUI was not much fun at times
... Base address 200H IRQ 7 etc etc etc.
At least today we understand the command line!

Try dos graveyard for those games, there are quite a few websites dedicated to old skool games like that.
 
Yeh - went to visit my parents recently - and they had all our old games in my old bedroom on the bookshelve.

Savage Empire, SimLife, Dune, Dune II, SimCity, Dagger of Amon Ra, Warcraft I & II, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, etc, etc.

I also have a ISA Soundblaster at home :p
 
lcbxx said:
No man, this was years go..1996 abouts. It was the stage when "multimedia" was all the rage and full-motion video was eye candy.
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i know what you are saying. just that i was thinking i can't for the life of me think why i would, today, buy a soundblaster.
 
ant101 said:
Getting them to work with Dos with no GUI was not much fun at times
... Base address 200H IRQ 7 etc etc etc.
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DoOoT!
"Could not Detect MIDI, please select Sound blaster or compatible device."

DoOoT!
"Please Select IRQ"

DoOoT!
"Wrong IRQ Channel Selected - you will play this game without sound now. thanks"
 
Super Diamond

were the Sound Blaster distributors/agents in Wynberg (JHB). I actually went for a full course in Multimedia with them, was in support then, plenty of people called in dos, memory allocation problems, extended, expanded, higher mem, mem manager all a vague dream now! sigh!
 
I remember that the PC, prior to the installation of the AWE32, only had a PC speaker. I've heard games like Dune 2, Ultima VIII & Descent 2 on a mate's PC with a Gravis Ultrasound board, but when we fired up the AWE32 and were able to select Roland MT/32 or General MIDI, those games transformed with the almost orchestral music.

Especially Descent 2, the MIDI soundtrack on that game was hardcore on a AWE32, not to mention Doom 2!

EchoZA said:
:) rmbr taking out a loan to buy 2 x 3DFX Voodoo cards :)
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I remember seeing someone play Need For Speed 2 SE on a VooDoo2 enabled PC. It was like seeing Arcade-like graphics on the PC! Quake 2 also looked fantastic in 3dFX, compared to OpenGL or software rendering.
 
I still have my AWE32 (and an Audigy!) as well as 1 x Voodoo3 (alas no support on my MB for it :( )
 
Heh, remember those days fondly!

Got a CD Rom and soundblaster bundle as well :D

It was only a double-speed CD-Rom, but what the hey... it worked just fine. I was lucky to get a standard IDE-CDROM interface :D

Years later I would disassemble a client's PC, to find a soundblaster 16 card, with a non-standard IDE interface.

It was great to have decent sound and music at last :D

No more tinny bip bop bippity bop speaker sounds :D

And yes, the jigglystuff done with the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

Somehow I always get the urge to use BUGGERS instead of BUFFERS in the config.sys file :o :D
 
forgot about messing with those files to get the soundcard working :-)

Also remember a friend getting a voodoo card, and seeing tomb raider 1 on it, compared to my old PC - think I had a just released Pentium 75.
 
here... remember this

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