The sampling rate capabilities were also increased to 44 kHz (CD quality) for playback, and 22 kHz for recording. In October 1991, Sound Blaster v2.0 ( CT1350) was launched which added support for 'auto-init' (automatic initialising) DMA which allowed the card to produce a continuous loop of double-buffered sound output. These models dropped the C/MS chips completely, otherwise the card was similar to the Sound Blaster 1.0. In 1990, the CT1320C and CT1320U were launched which were also a Sound Blaster 1.5. Having recognised that C/MS was unpopular, they replaced the two C/MS (Creative Music System/Game Blaster) chips with sockets - you could still purchase the C/MS chips for $29.95 if you wished and install them into these sockets. The CT1320B (Sound Blaster 1.5) was a cost-cutting measure. By adding this feature to the sound card, it freed up an expansion slot and at the very competivie price tag the Sound Blaster was being sold for, it was an easy decision for prospective sound card buyers. Back in these days, PC owners would need to spend around $50 to buy a game port adapter or a multi-I/O card that had a game port if they wanted to use a joystick with their PC. Game Blaster card, the C/MS chips were installed in sockets on the board.Īnother key selling feature of the Sound Blaster was its inclusion of a game port. For backward compatibility with the earlier C/MS a.k.a. In reality, this transformed DOS games, as this sampled sound was used to introduce sound effects into games while simultaneously playing music via the OPL2 (FM synthesis) chip.

This brand new feature brought the ability to play back mono sampled sound at up to 22 kHz sampling frequency (about the same as FM radio quality, so quite poor by today's standards), and record at 12 kHz (which was similar to AM radio quality - even worse). This meant that all games which supported Ad Lib would produce similar audio output quality on the Sound Blaster.īut what made it different was the 'DSP', or Digital Sound Processor, which is what Creative Labs called the 'digital audio' part of the card. First announced in September 1988, the Sound Blaster had an 11-voice FM synthesizer which made use of the Yamaha YM3812 chip, often referred to simply as the OPL2 chip - this was the same chip used in the Ad Lib card, so it was 100% Ad Lib compatible. However, there are some issues which you may encounter when running ATAPI devices.The original Sound Blaster v1.0 and v1.5 ( CT1310, CT1320A/B) were released in 1989 as the successor to their Game Blaster. You can also use them as the source drive to copy audio tracks or data CDs to your destination CD-R/CD-RW drive. You can now use most ATAPI CD-ROM drives for digital audio extraction. This is normal behavior with this release of Easy CD Pro. Easy CD Pro may refer to them as SCSI devices when you run the software. This version of Easy CD Pro supports ATAPI CD-ROM drives and ATAPI CD-R/CD-RW drives. You will find the 'Erase Disc' command both as a toolbar button and a menu option.

For owners of CD-ReWritable drives, you can now use Easy CD Pro to erase the contents of your CD-RW discs. It does not support USB drives, only writes at 1x, 2x, and 4x speeds (even if your burner can go faster).' From Readme.txt: This version of Easy CD Pro supports CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) drives.

It does not know about newfangled things like 24x CD burners, USB, and CDRW. Just like Christmas morning.' Warnings: 'Easy CD Pro is pretty old. You could look inside the box of almost any CD-R drive and there it was: Your free copy of Easy-CD Pro on two adorable little floppy disks. Adaptec Easy-CD Pro for Windows 95 2.11 Windows 95/NT May, 1997 The software was developed by Incat, which and purchased by Adaptec in 1995 'Once upon a time, you could go to Adaptec's web page and download Easy-CD Pro.

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