Talk:Sound Blaster AWE32

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IDE Interface[edit]

Does anyone know about the IDE interface on some/all of these cards? was it ever usable as an actual drive controller? I had one such card, and another SB16 from ages ago that both had IDE interfaces, and was wondering if they were ever fully functional. i never was able to get them to work. --Pandora Xero 17:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remember that win95 at least detected it as "Standard IDE Controller". I dont know if it could be used with hard drives, but i used to have two cd-rom drives in my 486 connected to it, and they worked surprisingly fine considering it's ISA card after all. --88.85.144.65 09:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have gotten hard drives and CD-ROM drives to work on this card, however not all drives worked. The card may have some limitations in what is compatible and what is not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.231.159.16 (talk) 05:38, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BeOS compatability[edit]

The original non-PnP AWE32 is NOT compatable with BeOS. Be Inc. never updated their compatability info to note that. The second version Plug-n-Play AWE32 works perfectly with BeOS.

OS/2 Warp Compatibility[edit]

AWE32 cards with Vibra chipset are not compatible with later drivers from Creative Labs under OS/2 Warp. Original drivers supplied with Warp4 do work, but are missing MIDI-synthesis and WinOS/2 support. Original AWE32 and AWE64 works fine with OS/2, though.

CT3620[edit]

I have a CT3620, it looks almost exactly like a Sound Blaster AWE32 (see photo), but according to google it's a Sound Blaster 32.

Maybe the photo can also be used in the article. --MrBurns (talk) 20:43, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CT3670[edit]

I have a CT3670 sold - detected as SB32, it contain CT8903-DAQ CT1745-TBP chips - that are used on AWE64 - so it is more AWE64 than SB32.

CT2502 ViBRA chip[edit]

Hello, what do you mean "citation needed"? Kvng CT2502 chip contain bass, treble, gain controls that works. It is fact. Everyone can check it with its own real card. For example here is mine SB32 CT3600 with CT2502 ViBRA chip and working controls:

File:Creative Sound Blaster 32 CT3600 volume mixer DOS.JPG

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File:Creative Sound Blaster 32 CT3600 volume mixer WIN.JPG

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That's original research. If readers start seeing some detailed information about the chips, they'll want to know where that came from and where they can go for even more detail. We're looking for a manufacturer datasheet or, better yet, an independent technical article about the chips. ~Kvng (talk) 16:15, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explanation. I think datasheets for Vibra chips are nowhere available. Even more for CT2502 that is more different to other Vibra chips... Hard to found anything about these soundcards produced before age of internet or google :) ~HiroSK 2021-04-09

They were printed so I'm sure they exist in an archive somewhere. We're allowed to use offline sources in articles. Finding them may be a challenge but we do have editors here with shelves of books and piles of papers. ~Kvng (talk) 13:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]