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Sound Blaster 16

ID: SOUND-BLASTER-16
RELEASED 1992
PRICE
DISCONTINUED 1999
UNITS SOLD Ubiquitous

I/O PORTS

Joystick/MIDICD-Audio InPanasonic/Sony CD Interface

System Analysis

The standard for PC Audio. 16-bit CD-quality sound and OPL3 synthesis. If you played Doom, you heard it on this.

Processor

N/A
DSP-CT1740

Digital Signal Processor for compression/decompression.

Audio Subsystem

Stereo PCM + 18 FM Voices
Yamaha OPL3 (YMF262)

44.1kHz 16-bit Stereo recording and playback.

Memory

N/A
N/A

Expandable to ASP upgrade possible

Storage

N/A
CD-ROM Interface

Graphics Architecture

N/A
Palette: N/A
Hardware Tricks

Did You Know?

  • ? Included a proprietary CD-ROM interface before IDE CD-ROMs were standard.
  • ? The "ASP" chip (Advanced Signal Processor) was rarely used by games.