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First post, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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Does anyone have a list / picture of the full contents for the original AWE64 Gold (CT4390). I bought a couple of these new in late 96 or early 97 and their contents have become rather scattered in storage & use. As I'm planning to donate one to one of my young cousins who's showing some interest in the vintage side of things, I'd like it to be as complete as possible.

Sadly I no longer have the cardboard boxes to refer to, and the full-face embossed Creative decal mirror which was stuck to the front only mentions CUBASIS audio as a free inclusion. I know there was a manual and drivers CD and there were cables (RCA) and a mic but I'm not sure about other cables, adapters or software & docs. TIA for any help.

Reply 1 of 4, by Thermalwrong

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Take a look here, one of the box pictures lists the contents:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/creati … ound-1792400861

Nothing too exciting really, just a cheap "hands-free mic" and the SPDIF cable. Strangely, I bought a boxed AWE64 gold with the 8MB memory expansion from someone (maybe on here?) recently, mine lists these parts:

  • Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold card
  • Creative Configuration Manager
  • Creative Software Suite for Windows® 95 and Windows 3.1™ / MS-DOS on CD-ROM
  • Hands-free Microphone
  • MIDI Cable
  • Gold RCA Cable
  • Bracket with SPDIF output connector

Make sure your PC meets the requirements, it needs a Pentium 90!

Reply 2 of 4, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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Thx @Thermalwrong for the pics in the link and your own list; this is kind of why I was asking - I suspect there might have been a number of versions of the package with slightly differing contents (certainly never seen another one like mine), and what I have left of my original boxes tells me nothing. Next plan is to have a dig around on archive.org for the old SB & Creative sites.

Reply 3 of 4, by akula65

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Here are some photos of my package for items not mentioned above.

Reply 4 of 4, by leileilol

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Thermalwrong wrote:

it needs a Pentium 90!

That requirement is more for the rather useless software WaveSynth driver. AWE64 sans that driver, it'll work fine in a 486.

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