Assembling the MUS 1099 GameBlaster Clone - Part 1

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I assembled another vintage sound card. This time it's a clone of the Creative Game Blaster (aka Creative Music System) card, featuring two Philips SAA1099 synth chips for stereo sound. The card preceded the SoundBlaster and was pretty much a failure, losing out to AdLib in the beginning. However it was heavily pushed for a while by Sierra and had support in many of their games. The synth had 12 stereo channels, due to the two ICs, which was arguably better than the AdLib's 9 or 11 mono channels. However, since it could only produce square wave sounds, the overall sound quality of the instruments was much more limited.

Github project: https://github.com/gemedetpaps/MUS-1099

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster#Creative_Music_System

AdLib Clone: https://youtu.be/hn69e_zHXp4

Tandy Clone: https://youtu.be/tTftxRXyC-k



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