Internal Soundcards
These are the internal PC soundcards that I currently own (ISA).
Advanced Gravis UltraSound with 1MB RAM [Rev. 3.4]
- Music/Digital capabilities: up to 32 voices Gravis GF1 16-bit/44.1KHz Playback, 8-bit/44.1KHz Recording (Stereo) *
- Other: 16-bit recording daughterboard upgrade
- Connections: Speaker-out, Line-out, Mic-in, Line-in, Game/MIDI-port
- Interface: ISA (16-bit)
- Year of introduction: 1991
* Playback 44.1KHz up to 14 voices. Only 19KHz with all 32 voices enabled. Recording can be 16-bit 44.1KHz with optional daughterboard. Note that the UltraSound PnP is based on the AMD Interwave chip instead of the Gravis GF1 and is the only UltraSound card able to play back at 44.1KHz with all 32 voices enabled.
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ASP [CT-1740] – DSP 4.05
- Music capabilities: 20-voice FM Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 (Stereo)
- Digital capabilities: 16-bit/44.1kHz Playback, 16-bit/44.1kHz Recording (Stereo)
- Connections: Line-out, Line-in, Mic-in, Game-port (doubles as MPU-401 UART interface), Wave Blaster compatible header, Creative/Panasonic CD-ROM interface
- Interface: ISA (16-bit)
- Year of introduction: 1992
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 MCD [CT-1750] – DSP 4.05
- Music capabilities: 20-voice FM Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 (Stereo)
- Digital capabilities: 16-bit/44.1kHz Playback, 16-bit/44.1kHz Recording (Stereo)
- Connections: Line-out, Line-in, Mic-in, Game-port (doubles as MPU-401 UART interface), Wave Blaster compatible header, Creative/Panasonic, Mitsumi and Sony CD-ROM interfaces
- Interface: ISA (16-bit)
- Year of introduction: 1993
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32 with 2MB RAM expansion [CT-3900] – DSP 4.13
- Music capabilities: 20-voice FM Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 (Stereo)
- MIDI capabilities: 32-voice E-MU EM8000 (1MB ROM) (Stereo)
- Digital capabilities: 16-bit/44.1kHz Playback, 16-bit/44.1kHz Recording (Stereo)
- Other: 512kB on-board RAM (expandable to 28MB with SIMM)
- Connections: Line-out, Line-in, Mic-in, Game-port (doubles as MPU-401 UART interface), Wave Blaster compatible header, Creative/Panasonic and IDE CD-ROM interfaces
- Interface: ISA (16-bit)
- Year of introduction: 1994
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold with 8MB RAM expansion [CT-4390 + CT-1930]
- Music capabilities: 20-voice FM OPL3 emulation (Stereo)
- MIDI capabilities: 64-voice E-MU EM8000 (1MB ROM) (Stereo) *
- Digital capabilities: 16-bit/44.1kHz Playback, 16-bit/44.1kHz Recording (Stereo)
- Other: 4MB on-board RAM (expandable to 28MB with proprietary Memory Upgrade Modules) **
- Connections: Line-out, Line-in, Mic-in, Game-port (doubles as MPU-401 UART interface)
- Interface: ISA (16-bit)
- Year of introduction: 1996
* 32-voice hardware based, 32-voice software-based, relying on system CPU
** A modern upgrade board called SIMMconn exists, allowing to upgrade the memory using regular 72-pins SIMM modules
