The 1995 CD-ROM Upgrade Experience: Creative Discovery CD Kit
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Date: 2022-04-14
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coondogtheman1234
I had a similar newer multimedia kit but I didn't get it until 1997 I had an old digital venturis 433SX PC running at 33mhz and it had 8MB of RAM (4MB when I first got it) and that's it. The kit had the same as here but an 8 speed CD ROM drive, sound blaster AWE32 card, speakers which I still have and the cables to hook it all up and a ton of games and software. Back then I did have Doom and Doom 2 which I used to test the card. I had Creative Wave studio and Sound OLE which I used to record tons of music onto my PC. I did get another hard drive put in. Main C drive was 270MB and the other was 345MB.
I like how the different players (CD, Wave, MIDI etc) resemble hi fi stacked systems with VFD displays and buttons. A lot of the stuff you used on this machine brought back memories of when I had my machine but mine was so slow.
And yes I stayed up at night on a school night playing DOOM, with headphones.
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I had a similar newer multimedia kit but I didn't get it until 1997 I had an old digital venturis 433SX PC running at 33mhz and it had 8MB of RAM (4MB when I first got it) and that's it. The kit had the same as here but an 8 speed CD ROM drive, sound blaster AWE32 card, speakers which I still have and the cables to hook it all up and a ton of games and software. Back then I did have Doom and Doom 2 which I used to test the card. I had Creative Wave studio and Sound OLE which I used to record tons of music onto my PC. I did get another hard drive put in. Main C drive was 270MB and the other was 345MB.
I like how the different players (CD, Wave, MIDI etc) resemble hi fi stacked systems with VFD displays and buttons. A lot of the stuff you used on this machine brought back memories of when I had my machine but mine was so slow.
And yes I stayed up at night on a school night playing DOOM, with headphones.
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lucidbarrier
My dad bought us a computer when I was a kid. He said it was like $2500, which was a lot of money back then. I thought the Sound Blaster kit came with it, I guess it was extra. It had the CD rom drive, the Sound Blaster card and speakers. We used to play a lot of Warcraft II and Warcraft III on that set. I had no idea that stuff was that expensive. My dad new that computers were the future and let us mess with it to our hearts content. I remember spending hours with the included CDs. There was a San Diego Zoo CD, the encyclopedia, the different Grolier stuff. It was pretty cool because when you pressed the button the sounds would play. I always envied my friends Altec Lansing speakers because of the subwoofer but these sound blasters sounded great.
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My dad bought us a computer when I was a kid. He said it was like $2500, which was a lot of money back then. I thought the Sound Blaster kit came with it, I guess it was extra. It had the CD rom drive, the Sound Blaster card and speakers. We used to play a lot of Warcraft II and Warcraft III on that set. I had no idea that stuff was that expensive. My dad new that computers were the future and let us mess with it to our hearts content. I remember spending hours with the included CDs. There was a San Diego Zoo CD, the encyclopedia, the different Grolier stuff. It was pretty cool because when you pressed the button the sounds would play. I always envied my friends Altec Lansing speakers because of the subwoofer but these sound blasters sounded great.
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REDKLOK
I got one like that in late 93. It came with a soundblaster card, a CD from and about 10 CD titles, like King's Quest 6 and an FMV encyclopedia to name a few. It came with similar speakers and a VHS with instructions. I was too scared to mess up the installation. Lol, it was my first computer and I was only 14, but I got everything hooked up by myself and got it working on my first try. Might not seem like much, but I had no internet or none of my relatives or friends had no idea how to service a PC back then. First things purchased were The 7th Guest and a 7 CD collection of about a thousand random titles of shareware. I did get Doom 2 around 95 or 96. Good times.
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I got one like that in late 93. It came with a soundblaster card, a CD from and about 10 CD titles, like King's Quest 6 and an FMV encyclopedia to name a few. It came with similar speakers and a VHS with instructions. I was too scared to mess up the installation. Lol, it was my first computer and I was only 14, but I got everything hooked up by myself and got it working on my first try. Might not seem like much, but I had no internet or none of my relatives or friends had no idea how to service a PC back then. First things purchased were The 7th Guest and a 7 CD collection of about a thousand random titles of shareware. I did get Doom 2 around 95 or 96. Good times.
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todd
I can remember getting it for Doom, when it came out! Shows my age-, but my system wasn-t smooth, until I purchased this! Where it truly payed off was buying a Roland MIDI synthesizer, something that DOOM supported, and sending the supporting cables adrift, to the Roland Synthesizer and WOW, did it play Great! Butter smooth and the sound was phenomenal! I still have the Roland connected to my computer today. In my opinion, Roland samples simply can-t compete to even the latest Sound Blaster Cards-. Ah, Memories-
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I can remember getting it for Doom, when it came out! Shows my age-, but my system wasn-t smooth, until I purchased this! Where it truly payed off was buying a Roland MIDI synthesizer, something that DOOM supported, and sending the supporting cables adrift, to the Roland Synthesizer and WOW, did it play Great! Butter smooth and the sound was phenomenal! I still have the Roland connected to my computer today. In my opinion, Roland samples simply can-t compete to even the latest Sound Blaster Cards-. Ah, Memories-
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Michael
Oh. I was the one who wrote the sbcd. sys drivers way back in 1994-5. I did the dos 3d cdrom music player too. I was sitting 3 seats from Sim Wong Hoo in those days. Did some cdrom drivers for Dos, OS/2, WinNT in those days. Then moved to graphic card drivers. then to internet marketing. What wasn't released, was a caching cdrom driver. That reduced the average 20% cpu to use the cdrom for video/games, down to about 3% cpu. Those drivers were written first in assembly language and moved to C later.
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Oh. I was the one who wrote the sbcd. sys drivers way back in 1994-5. I did the dos 3d cdrom music player too. I was sitting 3 seats from Sim Wong Hoo in those days. Did some cdrom drivers for Dos, OS/2, WinNT in those days. Then moved to graphic card drivers. then to internet marketing. What wasn't released, was a caching cdrom driver. That reduced the average 20% cpu to use the cdrom for video/games, down to about 3% cpu. Those drivers were written first in assembly language and moved to C later.
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Byron
Man, I remember my first multimedia upgrade one Christmas. It was amazing! I always wondered if the problems I had with it was due to our -off-brand- Reveal kit, but it seems like the -real deal- wasn-t immune to the same challenges. I liked the software that came with ours better than what was shown here, too. I can-t remember if we got it from Walmart or Circuit City back in the day. I can-t find any info about it online though. Bummer.
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Man, I remember my first multimedia upgrade one Christmas. It was amazing! I always wondered if the problems I had with it was due to our -off-brand- Reveal kit, but it seems like the -real deal- wasn-t immune to the same challenges. I liked the software that came with ours better than what was shown here, too. I can-t remember if we got it from Walmart or Circuit City back in the day. I can-t find any info about it online though. Bummer.
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cheezst8ke
I had the Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 DVD Multimedia kit back then in the mid 90s. I think it was $299 MSRP back then. I used it to upgrade the Packard Bell Platinum 2240 tower I was using back then. I upgraded that computer with a lot of Creative Labs stuff. The DVD Dxr2 kit, CD-RW Blaster 4224, 3-D Blaster Savage 4 Pro PCI graphics card, Sound Blaster Live PCI sound card, and Modem Blaster Flash 56K V. 90 ISA modem card.
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I had the Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 DVD Multimedia kit back then in the mid 90s. I think it was $299 MSRP back then. I used it to upgrade the Packard Bell Platinum 2240 tower I was using back then. I upgraded that computer with a lot of Creative Labs stuff. The DVD Dxr2 kit, CD-RW Blaster 4224, 3-D Blaster Savage 4 Pro PCI graphics card, Sound Blaster Live PCI sound card, and Modem Blaster Flash 56K V. 90 ISA modem card.
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Tomas
My parents had a bundle similar to this with our first computer in 1994. It was a 486 DX2 66MHz. The speakers and CD-ROM were exactly the same for sure. Ah, memories.
The Windows software was the same, but the bundled DOS games were different. I remember it coming with Lemmings and Indy 500. Lemmings definitely got a lot of play in my house that Christmas!
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My parents had a bundle similar to this with our first computer in 1994. It was a 486 DX2 66MHz. The speakers and CD-ROM were exactly the same for sure. Ah, memories.
The Windows software was the same, but the bundled DOS games were different. I remember it coming with Lemmings and Indy 500. Lemmings definitely got a lot of play in my house that Christmas!
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Drew
Double speed? Stop flexing. I remember my Mitsumi 1. 5x speed CD-ROM that also had a cartridge you had to place the CD-ROM in before inserting into the drive.
This would have been a DOS 5. 1 based 386DX50 IIRC.
We got the CD-ROM drive because loads of shareware on magazine cover disks and insane telephone modem price rates (in the UK.
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Double speed? Stop flexing. I remember my Mitsumi 1. 5x speed CD-ROM that also had a cartridge you had to place the CD-ROM in before inserting into the drive.
This would have been a DOS 5. 1 based 386DX50 IIRC.
We got the CD-ROM drive because loads of shareware on magazine cover disks and insane telephone modem price rates (in the UK.
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eggypickle
I had a similar package although must have been a little earlier, it came with a Soundblaster Pro instead of the 16. Similar software library I think, I definitely remember it coming with Grolier anyway. Same drive, probably just a way of them getting rid of Soundblaster Pro's: ) It was a Panasonic/Matsushita interface only.
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I had a similar package although must have been a little earlier, it came with a Soundblaster Pro instead of the 16. Similar software library I think, I definitely remember it coming with Grolier anyway. Same drive, probably just a way of them getting rid of Soundblaster Pro's: ) It was a Panasonic/Matsushita interface only.
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