Reply 60 of 442, by TheMAN
somebody must have the CT1750/CT1759 (SB16 MCD) retail disks somewhere... who would've thought these are harder to find than the SB16SCSI ones, especially since the latter was so much more expensive back in the days! that's probably the last and most unneeded thing I'm looking for
as for my SB16 CD.... I bought it direct from creative after I gave up trying to get the retail install disks from people (dialup hell BBS days and crappy internet made this hard)... I had to bend over and accept $19.43 US shafting from them... but at least I finally got a legit sought after copy of VoiceAssist! It came packaged in a shrink wrap cardboard package with a CD driver instructions book, a CD driver floppy, VoiceAssist floppy, and the SB16 CD... I still have all the packaging, including the mailing envelope, invoice and money order stub!
my newer SB16 CD came with a SB16 Pro I bought at a swap meet in about 2000, when I needed it to throw together a P200 Win98 box for my dad... still have it and it works
my CT2230 OTOH, was my first SB16 bought in late 1994... OEM version, and had the crappy software... after I found out I got screwed by creative because of the software, this started my quest in finding the better retail versions which came with more apps/utils... which were really cool and useful back in the days! I damaged the amp or maybe the caps around it when I hooked up a mono telephone to sound adapter to try to record operator messages from my phone line... apparently, the input jack is stereo and didn't like the voltage that was leaking through the crappy adapter from the phone line! after that, the already noisy card became horribly noisy... it still works otherwise
a family friend bought me a WB2 (CT1910) as a gift... I chose it and I got suckered into creative marketing... I didn't know there were better cards such as the DB50XG at that time and they were all about the same price! But with it all said and done, it's still a good thing I got it because you can't find the gamepak CD anywhere anymore, nor the actual utils 720k floppy that came with it... you NEED it to change between reverb/chorus and qsound, as well as GM/GS/MT32... otherwise it just defaults to GM!
so because of that, I found someone on a BBS selling his CT3900 because he bit the AWE64 bug (what a rip off they were once I found out what exactly they were)... that was an OEM version so I got OEM floppies of that (imaged and already in my revision 3 CD)... still lives in my retro box and works great with my CT1910! Has the 4.13 DSP and newer/better CT1745A-S/CT1748A-SBP chips
later on, I bought a brand new in box SB16SCSI from ebay I think probably 10 years ago... it was a rare sight and I think I paid good money for it... the ASP chip that I also bought new and was being used in the CT2230 but now lives in that CT1779 card 😁 The chip still works and thankfully was not damaged! This is the rare 1995 late production CT1779, so it has the much better CT1745A-S mixer chip and a 4.13 DSP
I still have the retail packaging of all my stuff and will post pics in another thread soon 😀
