The Sound Blaster is a series of sound cards from Create Labs. For a time, the Sound Blaster was considered a de-facto standard for DOS based gaming. Initially it competed against the uncommon IBM Music Feature card, and the Adlib cards. The original sound blaster provided 8-bit mono digital sound in addition to Adlib-compatible FM music synthesis and stereo CMS Game Blaster compatible square-wave music. Most DOS games work best with the earlier ISA cards. Later PCI cards use completely different hardware and only provide Sound Blaster compatiblity through software emulation.
The downloads below contain driver disk images for the Creative Labs Sound Blaster series cards.
The final flagship product from Creative designed for the ISA interface. Drivers included support DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1, 95, and NT 4.0. Sourced from original retail CDs with the North & South America model, therefore available languages are English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Also included is Cakewalk Express Gold 6.0 for Windows 95/NT 4.0.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Cakewalk Express Gold 6.0 Creative Edition | 6.0 Creative Edition | English | 200.74MB | 1 | |
SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold Drivers (CD) | English | 216.28MB | 3 |