You guys are making me drool with these babies! I wish I could just pluck these cards right from my screen! 😁

Hehe, yeah I know what you mean. Only yesterday, I saw ratfink's photo featuring an awesome looking industrial P4 mobo with ISA slots, which make all of my "fast" mobos look slow!

Regarding "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", RG100 foams at the mouth and splutters "must test this!". Are there two versions of this game? One action, the other point and click? Also, I wonder if I buy this game online, will it have the correct DOS files needed for Gameblaster support?

You want the adventure game!

It's pretty deep though, well compared to some other games. A proper Lucasarts adventure and it fits nicely with the movie.

Now you can buy it on Steam, but I don't think this is the DOS version.

I have bought it, give me a moment to test.

Otherwise, buy the Steam pack and "source" the DOS version. I think that's fair. There are a ton of Lucasarts adventures on Steam...

To launch the game with various sound options:

For The Last Crusade: […]
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For The Last Crusade:

D:\Games\Indy3>indy256 x
Options: 256 Version 3.0.22
k Keyboard
j Joystick
m Mouse
i Internal speaker
g Game Blaster(tm) sounds
a Adlib(tm) sounds

Update: It almost works in DOS, just needs 1 file to get going which is 00.lfl

Thanks for the pics guys. Interesting that they always seem to have the yamaha OPL chip scrubbed off so you can't identify it.

RG100 was that CMS game blaster an ebay win or did you dig it up somewhere else?

I've got the phillips chips to make my SB1.5 into a game blaster but I haven't bothered to open it yet... 😜

The Gameblaster was bought through a lucky conversation I had with Vogons user Salient. I can't remember the exact conversation, but I asked him about a SB with CMS support, and he mentioned that he didn't have what I was after, but he did have a Gameblaster. I was grateful for this chance conversation, and bought it. In fact, I've bought a few things from him, all excellent quality, well packaged, great comms. Better than ebay!

My Sound Blaster 2.0 has arrived. It's model CT1350B revision 4. I don't know if this is a good version, or not. I'm having a few teething problems with it. I mentioned these problems here. Begin edit: problem now solved. End edit.

The sound quality is a bit rough. You guys were right - there's no compelling reason to own one of these things, if you have a SB Pro 2, CT1600. OTOH, it's the only 8-bit Creative sound card I have, so it's worth keeping. [Another Edit - I also have the CT1600 and that's 8-bit too. End edit]

Edit 2: I've changed my mind about the sound quality. It's not too bad at all.

I ran Quest for Glory 2, and selected Adlib instead of Sound Blaster. That worked. Previously, when I ran this game's installation options, I selected Sound Blaster, and that option could not detect the SB sound card hardware. ATM, I don't know why this is happening. Begin Edit: problem solved, solution was to use slower hardware. End Edit.

Anyway, here is a recording. Actually, it's not bad. I've changed my mind about this card. It's not as bad as I first thought. I think it would sound better if it wasn't quite so "shrill / treble sounding".

Dang...another one with a CT1350B...maybe time to start a SB1350B appreciation club? 😜 😜 😜

Tetrium wrote:

Dang...another one with a CT1350B...maybe time to start a SB1350B appreciation club? 😜 😜 😜

Hey, I got three of these...maybe I can become the president of that club 😁

One of them is with the C/MS chips

Nice!

I got three as well. Haven't fitted the CMS chips though, they stay in the box, as I got the 1.5's and they work just fine.

RG100 do you also get the "computer thinking" sound? I have this across all the 1.5 and 2.0 cards. Kinda like it, part of the experience 🤣

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Nice!

I got three as well. Haven't fitted the CMS chips though, they stay in the box, as I got the 1.5's and they work just fine.

RG100 do you also get the "computer thinking" sound? I have this across all the 1.5 and 2.0 cards. Kinda like it, part of the experience 🤣

I know 😉 I thought I only had the one with C/MS chips left when I had sold the SB's to you but when I went tru my boxes of cards in my basement recetly I found two more 😜

Hehehe

2.0 owners club. I like it 🤣

When you say "computer thinking" sound, do you mean a single "clunk" noise? If yes, then I do hear this sound. Oddly, when the SB's IRQ resource was set to IRQ 7, I don't think I heard this noise. I only heard this noise when I set the card's IRQ to 5. However, I haven't tested this card much, so I could be mistaken about this.

Are CM/S "upgrade" chips rare? I would like to upgrade my SB. 😀

You can hear things like HDD access.

The CMS chips for 2.0 (3 chips) are very rare. The CMS chips for 1.5 are easy to get and fairly cheap. So get a 1.5 if you want an easy upgrade to CMS.

But you can always pull out your GENUINE GAME BLASTER 🤣

In my old 166MMX rig, the "computer thinking" noise was induced in the CD-Audio cable. If I removed that cable, the computer thinking noise would be greatly decreased.

Of course, not having that cable in place was far more inconvenient...

Dang I only got 2! But at least I also got one very nice CT1350B box that looks like it's been in the washing machine 😁

I'm always amazed at the sheer number of different versions / revisions Creative produced.

Is there any documentation as to what changes these revisions contained?

Dunno, but "a" soundblaster 64 is really not a soundblaster 64. My guess is Creative changed the revision numbers whenever they changed some chips on it. Also many oem parts received different CT numbers and/or revision numbers.

I've seen a couple lists of CT numbers (maybe wiki even has one) but there must be hundreds of different soundblasters made

I'm going to necro my own thread. On page 1, I show the reverse of an Adlib sound card. It's got a squiggle signature on it. Does anyone else have this? Is it unique? A one off perhaps? Thanks for checking.