In 1988, DOS games were finally beginning to support cards and devices that would allow games to expand their musical abilities beyond the PC Speaker and PCjr./Tandy 3-Voice sound. King's Quest IV, released in September, 1988, was the first DOS game to support sound cards and midi interfaces. It supported the Adlib Music Synthesizer Card, the Roland MT-32 Multi-timbral MIDI Sound Module and the IBM Music Feature, all of which had been released the previous year.

While the Adlib would soon become supported by all developers, and the MT-32 would dominate the high end of PC gaming for several years, IBM's card was seen as overpriced and lacking in features. It was supported in games only by Sierra, and then as something of an afterthought. Could a third card succeed? Creative Technologies of Singapore thought it could.

In late 1987 or early 1988, Creative Labs, Inc. released the Creative Music System (CMS or C/MS as it was abbreviated) in the United States (it had previously been released in Malaysia and Singapore).

Own a piece of history by getting the best reproduction of Creative's first sound card (before the Sound Blaster): the Game Blaster! This project uses high quality components (such as Audio quality electrolytic capacitors and aluminum knob) and a design that completely removes any noise issues. By default comes fully socketed and with a 3d printed bracket but metal bracket is also an option (at a cost).

Based (and improved upon) the MUS-1099 project: https://github.com/gemedetpaps/MUS-1099

(ALL MUS-1099 ISSUES SOLVED: NO BACKGROUND NOISE, NO EXCESSIVE GAIN, etc). Pristine sound!!

How to install

• Place in a free ISA slot in your vintage IBM compatible PC
• Use any of these disk images to run the demos: https://archive.org/details/cms-game-blaster-drivers-1.44-mb
• Play a variety of games that support the CMS/Game Blaster: http://archives.oldskool.org/pub/CMSSoundPatches/Games/