Creative Blaster CD

Multimedia Home 4x

Create an interactive PC entertainment, education, and work center for the entire family with Sound Blaster Multimedia Home (TM) 4X. Includes best-selling multimedia software, 16-bit audio, and a cutting-edge, quad-speed Photo CD compatible CD-ROM drive.


SOUND BLASTER 16 - THE STANDARD FOR CD-QUALITY STEREO SOUND

Features and Specifications:

* Industry-standard 16-bit stereo sound

* Compatible with thousands of programs

* 16-bit stereo and mono recording and playback from 5kHz to 44.1 kHz

* 20-voice, OPL 3 FM music synthesizer for a larger choice of instrument sounds and effects

* Optimized FM driver provides true fidelity

* Upgradeable to WaveTable synthesis and Advanced Digital Signal Processing

* Microphone, stereo line-in, and CD interfaces provide multiple inputs for recording

* MIDI interface - MPU-401 UART and Sound Blaster modes

* Joystick port for 1 or 2 joysticks (optional splitter cable available)

* Stereo amplifier provides 4-watts-per-channel (PMPO) to power speakers or headphones

* Built-in mixer lets you mix up to six sources plus bass, treble and master volume control; provides full control of fade-in and out, pan, volume left-right steering, and microphone mixing

EVERYTHING YOU NEED WITH THE BEST SELLING SOFTWARE INCLUDED

* High-quality multimedia software

* Sound Blaster 16 stereo sound card

* Quadruple-speed internal CD-ROM drive

* Stereo headphones

* Easy installation

CREATIVE QUAD-SPEED CD-ROM DRIVE

Features and Specifications:

*Internal quadruple-speed drive

*IDE interface for increased performance

*600KB/second transfer rate, fast data access of 250ms

*Large 680MB data storage with 256KB RAM buffer

*Multi-Session Photo CD compatible

*Tray loading mechanism

STEREO SPEAKERS AND MICROPHONE

*High-performance, Creative Labs stereo speakers included

*Ergonomically designed, condenser microphone included


Includes Today's Top-Selling Multimedia Software Titles

Education

Microsoft Encarta '95

Relive historical events, hear the voices of famous people, go anywhere in the world to explore geography, culture, and languages. Includes more than 26,000 articles, 9 hours of sound, 8,000 photos and illustrations, 100 animations, video clips, and more than 250 interactive charts.

Microsoft Bookshelf '94

This popular multimedia reference library includes The Consise Columbia Encyclopedia, The American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Consise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, the Consise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations and Hammond Atlas.

Microsoft Musical Instruments

Explore the world of music, brought to life with briliant sound and photos. Hear sound samples of more than 200 instruments. Includes 500 high quality photographs of instruments and ensembles from all over the world.

Microsoft Ancient Lands

Step back in time to explore the ancient lands of Rome, Egypt, Greece, and other ancient civilizations. Features over 1,000 interactive articles with full-color images and hours of narrations, sound, animation, video and more.

Microsoft Dangerous Creatures

See more than 250 of the world's most extraordinary creatures come to life in more than 100 exciting, narrated videos. Features 800 detailed articles, torus, color photographs, and hours of sound and narration.

ENTERTAINMENT

Microsoft Cinemania '95

Your personal refernce guide to the world's films - complete with reviews, biographies, video and audio clips, and cinemania insights. Also includes Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1995, Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video guide 1995, and more.

Microsoft Golf, Multimedia Edition

Play through magnificent photo-realistic scenery. Control your game by choosing your stance, ball position, club face, and swing plane. Improve your game with professional advice, on-line help, and demonstrations.

Pagan: Ultima VIII

(This game has been voluntarily rated MP-14 (for mature players) by its publisher. Other titles may be similarly intended for mature audiences.)

Intense magic and fantasy - a fast-pace, thrilling adventure with life-like animation and digital sounds.

SSN-221 Seawolf

Sophisticated nuclear attack submarine simulation features 16-bit digital audio and a full musical score.

Strike Commander

A flight simulator of uncompromising quality and reality, interwoven with a gripping cinematic story.

Syndicate Plus

Equip company agents with hi-tech weaponry and infiltrate detailed, futuristic cities to defeat the opposing syndicate.

Wing Commander II

Dogfight your way through the universe! This award-winning, deluxe edition includes advanced 3-D rendering, digitized speech, and a compelling musical score.

PRODUCTIVITY

Microsoft Works, Multimedia Edition

Combining word processing, database, spreadsheet, and communications applications, Microsoft Works puts the tools you need for home, school or business at your fingertips. Wizards help you create professional documents with ease.

Microsoft Publisher

A full-featured desktop publishing program with the tools to create publications in just a few easy steps. Cure cards walk you through each step of the design process. Includes templates, clip art, and fonts to help you create stunning work.

Microsoft Publisher: Special Occasions Design Pack

Includes fonts, clip art, and templates to help you easily create special occasion cards, invitations, newsletters, brochures, and more- all in just a few easy steps. Disk version.

Quicken Deluxe CD-ROM

The #1 best-selling financial organizer that saves you time and gives you financial control. Includes a collection of information tools to analyze financial decisions and make you financially savvy.

UTILITY

Microsoft Scenes: Undersea Collection

Take an undersea adventure through 40 photographic images of sharks, whales, and tropical fish. Use these colorful images as screen saves or wallpaper. Disk version.

Creative Images, Sounds & Effects

A clip library of 100 full-color images, 30 music pieces, and over 120 sound effects.

UTILITY

*Creative Ensemble

This sound control rack software resembles a home Hi-fi system with separate components to play MIDI, Wave audio and CD audio. comes with the Ensemble Remote Control that lets you control all of the components without cluttering your desktop.

*Creative Wave Studio

This full-featured wave editing software supports MIDI and drag-and-drop capability. It features quick loading and screen updates, allows multiple source recording, mixer control and CD player control. Editing features include cut and paste, echo, fade, amplification, reverse and others.

*Creative SoundO'LE

This object-linking and embedding software allows recording and playback of sound files which can be placed in any Windows application which supports OLE. Record from multiple sources in 8- or 16-bit format. Choose from a number of audio compression standards to minimize disk space.

*Creative Mosaic

Put your mind to the test with this fun tile game complete with sound effects. Features interesting and colorful bit-mapped graphics.

*Creative Talking Scheduler

Have your PC verbally remind you of meetings and other appointments.

*Monologue for Windows

This text-to-speech software translates virtually anything you type into speech.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

*IBM(R)-PC 486 and higher 100% compatible

*SVGA graphics adapter (640 x 480, 256 colors)

*Microsoft Windows(R) 3.1 or higher

*MS-DOS(R) 6.0 or higher

*80MB of available hard disk space

*4MB RAM minimum

*3.5 inch, 1.44MB floppy drive

*Mouse

*Open 16-bit slot

*Open half height drive bay (drive rails may be required with some systems

Warranty

One-year limited hardware warranty covering parts and labor


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