These ICs were featured earlier in various popular electronics magazines around the world. It contained two Philips SAA1099 integrated circuits, which, together, provided 12 channels of square-wave 'bee-in-a-box' stereo sound, 4 channels of which can be used for noise. The history of Creative sound cards started with the release of the Creative Music System ('C/MS') CT-1300 board in August 1987.
6 Fifth generation Sound Blasters, PCI cards, multi-channel and F/X.5 Fourth generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA cards, dynamic sample-based synthesis.4 Third generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA cards.3 Second-generation Sound Blasters, 16-bit ISA & MCA cards.2 First generation Sound Blasters, 8-bit ISA & MCA cards.1 Creative Music System and Game Blaster.
