Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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CMS music has far too little space in the retro PC scene, so I recorded several DOS games using the original Game Blaster / Creative Music System.
This video contains pure audio and gameplay capture — no commentary — to demonstrate how CMS actually sounds on real hardware.

Hardware Used
486 DX4‑100 MHz
PicoMEM 1.11 (FW: 16 Nov 2025)
VGA2USB LR
Behringer UCA222
ffmpeg for scaling

About CMS
CMS (Creative Music System) was Creative’s first sound solution before the Sound Blaster.
It uses two Philips SAA1099 chips and produces a unique 12‑voice stereo square‑wave sound rarely heard today.

Why This Video Exists
There are very few high‑quality CMS recordings available, so this video serves as a clean reference for anyone interested in CMS, Game Blaster, or retro PC audio history.

Related CMS Documentation
Creative Music System for MiSTer (excellent technical reference):
github.com/r-bengtsson/Creative-Music-Sound-System-for-MiSTer

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