Cool! Good luck! 😁

I had (just sold it) a CT1320 that would not allow my IBM ValuePoint to boot but it worked just fine in PS/2 Model 30 8086s. It is strange how things (do not) work sometimes. 😊

If it works with Larry it should be in good condition. A good test on a 286 system is the Shareware of Wolfenstein 3D. Just the the BLASTER-Variable in DOS, e.g. SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
(corresponding to the jumpersettings on your card) and start the game. In the SOUND SETUP section you can then set the Music and Digtial effects. Start the first level and you will hear the genuine OPL2 music (the OPL3 on the CT2600 is 100% compatible with it) as well as stereo effects. If both isn't distorted you can be sure the card is fine.

Btw. I have a big sound card collection and tested all the SB Pro cards. In terms of the built quality of the board, no SB PRO card is better than the CT2600. It's a very high building standard, better than the famous CT1600 (which is basically the same card just with a Panasonic CD-Interface instead of the Mitsumi Interface on the CT2600). I also tend to find the output quality of the CT2600 better than on the CT1600 but that may vary with every card.

Anyways, enjoy the card 😀

Fabian

CT2600 is a 8-bit card, how could it play any MP3?

doesn't matter if it's 8bit, the cpu decodes the mp3 and sends wave data to the soundcard... obviously in settings you need to select 22050hz output

CT2600 should have DSP version 3.xx, capable of high speed DMA for stereo 22050 Hz at 8-bit.
It may not sound perfect but certainly capable of MP3 playback.

Of 8-bit cards I only tried MP3 on an Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro (8-bit stereo), and it won't play.

I managed to play MP3s with a Soundblaster Pro 2.
It worked fine and did not sound that horrible.

Interesting.

Of 8-bit stereo I have SB Pro CT1330 and MV Pro AudioSpectrum, perhaps someday I'll try MP3 on them.

mp3 playback can work with the Disney Sound Source if you find a program that supports it, it's not a matter of bits in the soundcard, it's a matter to have a cpu capable of decoding the mp3 and sending wave data to the card in a hz/bit/mono-stereo format that it works with. 😉

under Dos (with DMPI and enough memory),
you could try Ken Silverman MP3 player: http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#mp3
but his mp3 player dislike ID3v2 tag, you might want to strip the tag before it could be played.

CT2600 is a Sound Blaster Pro 2 Deluxe.

I just finished Wolfenstein 3D: Episode 1 and sound is perfect. Very happy at the moment 😀