Pictures of Sound blaster 1.0

[robertmo]

286 16 MHz (doesn't really matter whether turbo is on or off)

effect.shw and voice.shw were OK
while vtells and vtell.shw had too fast animation, but sound was ok.

It is exactly the same with 386 DX 40 MHz and Pentium III 450 MHz

[robertmo]

I guess there isn't a way to use all 24 voices together.

Such a doubter...

I take it you haven't yet tried playing a CMF song (or anything FM) while a CMS song is concurrently playing?

I have tried on a real hardware and in dosbox  (the effect was the same):

playcmf jug /s="organ"
or
playcmf jug /s="present voice.shw"

Although on real computer i got not enough memory to load voice file with present but it started to play and it looks as if organ and present had higher priority while fm music play only one note from time to time.

Nevertheless i think this test makes no sense as DOS is not a multi-tasking OS.

Are there any cms windows drivers and windows player?

[Cloudschatze]

Nevertheless i think this test makes no sense as DOS is not a multi-tasking OS.

You went about it differently than I'd intended, but regardless, it's just a simple way to demonstrate simultaneous playback of both C/MS and FM. While it's neither a perfect nor practical example, it should illustrate that, with a customized driver or composition tool, there's no reason why a 24-voice playback isn't possible.

[robertmo]

I think it isn't fair to call CT-1320A, the Sound Blaster 1.5

CT-1320A is just the card found in early batch of Sound Blaster Box printed "24 voices sound card" [...] in front of the box (I prefer to classify it as SB 1.0 because every IC chip is soldered on board, except the DSP chip), bundled with C/MS Intelligent Organ, Talking Parrot, etc.

CT-1320B or CT-1320C with empty CMS socket found in later batch of Sound Blaster Box printed "All in one sound card" in front of the box, (This is the well known SB 1.5) bundled with FM Intelligent Organ, Talking Parrot, Dr Sbaitso, Voxkit, etc.

My CT-1320C has got "VERSION 1.5" in the bottom-left corner of the box and also
"SOUND BLASTER
Version 1.5"
on the first page of the manual

Patrick Chang could you check your CT-1320A's box and manual for that info?
And also do you see any differences between your box and the box on this page? http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue115/396_1_ENTERTAINMENT_BLAST_THE_PC_SOUND_BARRIER_WITH_THIS_CREATIVE_CARD.php

[Amigaz]

I think it isn't fair to call CT-1320A, the Sound Blaster 1.5

CT-1320A is just the card found in early batch of Sound Blaster Box printed "24 voices sound card" [...] in front of the box (I prefer to classify it as SB 1.0 because every IC chip is soldered on board, except the DSP chip), bundled with C/MS Intelligent Organ, Talking Parrot, etc.

CT-1320B or CT-1320C with empty CMS socket found in later batch of Sound Blaster Box printed "All in one sound card" in front of the box, (This is the well known SB 1.5) bundled with FM Intelligent Organ, Talking Parrot, Dr Sbaitso, Voxkit, etc.

My CT-1320C has got "VERSION 1.5" in the bottom-left corner of the box and also
"SOUND BLASTER
Version 1.5"
on the first page of the manual

Patrick Chang could you check your CT-1320A's box and manual for that info?
And also do you see any differences between your box and the box on this page? http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue115/396_1_ENTERTAINMENT_BLAST_THE_PC_SOUND_BARRIER_WITH_THIS_CREATIVE_CARD.php

My SB1.0 manual says nothing abiut any version anywhere..

[robertmo]

My ct1320C manual says:
"The SOUND BLASTER Card provides a jumper to select one of these 4 Interrupt Lines. The factory default is IRQ7."

What about yours?

I wonder why "IT CAME FROM THE DESERT" readme says:

"If using "Sound Blaster" causes problems, check that the three links are in
   their "Factory" setting: I/O addx = 220, IRQ3, DRQ1 (DMA enable). Consult
   the Sound Blaster manual."

[Patrick Chang]

I think it isn't fair to call CT-1320A, the Sound Blaster 1.5

CT-1320A is just the card found in early batch of Sound Blaster Box printed "24 voices sound card" [...] in front of the box (I prefer to classify it as SB 1.0 because every IC chip is soldered on board, except the DSP chip), bundled with C/MS Intelligent Organ, Talking Parrot, etc.

CT-1320B or CT-1320C with empty CMS socket found in later batch of Sound Blaster Box printed "All in one sound card" in front of the box, (This is the well known SB 1.5) bundled with FM Intelligent Organ, Talking Parrot, Dr Sbaitso, Voxkit, etc.

My CT-1320C has got "VERSION 1.5" in the bottom-left corner of the box and also
"SOUND BLASTER
Version 1.5"
on the first page of the manual

Patrick Chang could you check your CT-1320A's box and manual for that info?
And also do you see any differences between your box and the box on this page? http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue115/396_1_ENTERTAINMENT_BLAST_THE_PC_SOUND_BARRIER_WITH_THIS_CREATIVE_CARD.php

My CT-1320A's box is same as the one in atarimagazines. But the manual is for Version 1.5 and mentioned nothing about the CMS organ. But the enclosed only diskette do have Talking Parrot, Voxkit & CMS Organ.
CMS driver is version 3.20A
test-sbc.exe is version 1.01

Card Type : CT-1320A
Card DSP : 1.05
Card S/N : 009833

PC

[robertmo]

I have tried playing two DOSBoxes (one configured to use opl passthrough the other configured to use cms passthrough). Both Sound Bblaster 1 and Sound Blaster 2 can play cms and opl together
I have checked Pentium 1 100MHz and Pentium 3 450MHz.
CMS was playing properly.
OPL2 has timing problems although it has nothing to do with playing together with cms.
OPL3 doesn't have any problems but of course i cannot test it together with cms