Surprisingly, the board also contained a large 40-pin PGA (Creative Technology Programmable Logic) integrated circuit, bearing a CT 1302A CTPL 8708 serigraphed inscription and looking exactly like the DSP of the later Sound Blaster. On the C/MS board in particular, the Philips chips had white pieces of paper with a fantasy CMS-301 inscription on them real Creative parts usually had consistent CT number references. The various integrated circuits had white or black paper sheets fully covering their top thus hiding their identity. For many years Creative tended to use off-the-shelf components and manufacturers' reference designs for their early products. These circuits were featured earlier in various popular electronics magazines around the world.

It contained two Philips SAA 1099 circuits, which, together, provided 12 voices of square-wave bee-in-a-box stereo sound plus some noise channels. The history of Creative sound boards started with the release of the Creative Music System ('C/MS') board in August 1987. The pre-Sound Blaster years Creative Music System

The creator of Sound Blaster is the Singapore-based firm Creative Technology, also known by the name of its United States subsidiary, Creative Labs. The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was for many years the de facto standard for audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, before PC audio became commoditized, and backward-compatibility became less of a feature, We have the largest collection of Sound Blaster Drivers on the web, if there is any information missing let us know.

Sound Blaster Model Ct4170 Driver