Creative's domination of the PC audiocard business soon had them selling the Sound Blaster Pro 2 OEM, CT1680, to customers for integration into pre-assembled PCs.Ĭreative also sold Multimedia Upgrade Kits containing the Sound Blaster Pro. Packaged Sound Blaster cards were initially marketed and sold into the retail-channel. The Sound Blaster Pro 2 was also sold with the following on-board CD-ROM controllers: Shortly after the release of the Sound Blaster Pro 2 version, Creative discontinued the original Sound Blaster Pro. Otherwise it is functionally identical to the original Sound Blaster Pro. The revised version, the Sound Blaster Pro 2, CT1600, replaced the YM3812s with a more advanced Yamaha YMF262 (OP元). It combined the CT1330 with Tandy joystick and MIDI ports (not MPU-401 compatible). This Sound Blaster Pro derived card was factory installed in Tandy Multimedia PCs. It uses the 16-bit extension to the ISA bus to provide the user with an additional choice for an IRQ (10) and DMA (0)m channel only found on the 16-bit portion of the edge connector.Ī short lived joint developed project between Creative and Tandy resulted in the Creative/Tandy Multimedia Sound Adapter, 849–3030. While at first glance it appears to be a 16-bit ISA card, it does not have 'fingers' for data transfer on the higher "AT" portion of the bus connector. The Sound Blaster Pro cards are basically 8-bit ISA cards, they use only the lower 8 data bits of the ISA bus. Most Sound Blaster Pro cards featured a proprietary interface for a Panasonic (Matsushita MKE) drive. The Sound Blaster Pro was the first Creative sound card to have a built-in CD-ROM interface. The Sound Blaster Pro was fully backward compatible with the original Sound Blaster line, and by extension, the AdLib sound card. The Sound Blaster Pro used a pair of YM3812 chips to provide stereo music-synthesis (one for each channel). The Sound Blaster Pro supported faster digital input and output sampling rates (up to 22.05 kHz stereo or 44.1 kHz mono), added a "mixer" to provide a crude master volume control (independent of the volume of sound sources feeding the mixer), and a crude high pass or low pass filter. Model CT1330, announced in May 1991, was the first significant redesign of the card's core features, and complied with the Microsoft MPC standard. Second-generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA & MCA cards To help fund ongoing operations, select items are made available. The Computer Preservation Group is dedicated to the preservation of historical computers. Local pickup is also available at no cost. Combined shipping is available for most items – contact us for details. Other shipping methods are available – contact us for details. However, shipping to and from is not refundable. This item can be returned within 14-days for ANY reason. We understand that there may be compatibility issues, space constraints, or it just doesn’t look perfect. Similar to pictured, a Sound Blaster Pro 2.
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