Sound Blaster Pro 2 CT1600
I bought this sound card as a child; I think I was 12 or 13 at the time. I washed A LOT of cars to be able to afford this card and rode my bicycle to the "Leidsenhage" Shopping mall (Now: Mall of the Netherlands) where I bought this card from Dixons (a electronics retailer in Northern Europe) brand new and brought it back home. It was my first sound card and I installed it in my 80386SX/33. I immediately fell in love. All my games transformed from the PC Speaker to really good sounds. What a joy!
Sadly, I lost the card over the years so this one is one I purchased on eBay - but it is the exact same I remember buying back in the day. This boxed copy came with all the extras I remember. The plastic-wrap on the box was done by eBay and is not original.
This card was basically a Sound Blaster Pro but with an improved FM Synthesis chip: The OPL3 (YMF262) instead of OPL2. Not many games used the features of this chip to retain Ad Lib compatibility, but one of my absolute favorite games that does is the Cryo Interactive version of Dune. The music in that game really shows what this chip could do.
Box contents:
* 6x 3.5" disks (2 1.44MB High-Density Install Disks, 1 text-to-speech disk, 1x 720Kb Indianapolis 500 game disk, 1x 720Kb Lemmings game disk, 1x HD 1.44MB HSC Interactive disk)
* 16-bit ISA card
* A flyer/order form for Patch View FM Special Edition
* A command summary card for Indy 500
* Indy 500 game manual (black/white)
* Lemming game manual (full color)
* Sound Blaster Pro User Reference Manual
* Getting Started guide for the Sound Blaster Pro
* HSC Interactive Manual
* Text-to-Speech user guide
* Disk order form for a different disk size
* Product registration card
* A flyer for the "Sound Blaster - the offical book"
* A 3.5mm to RCA cable
- ISA 16-bit
- Configured IRQ5 DMA1 A220