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michi@citr.uq.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:

>I recently bought a GameBlaster upgrade kit, and an ASP upgrade for the SB16.
>The problem is that Creative Labs shipped a version of the voice driver with
>the GameBlaster that is incompatible with the hardware revision.
>The driver packaged with the ASP upgrade does not work, it hangs the machine.
>Further, the revision dates of the drivers are all around mid 1993, that is,
>*very* old.
>
>I dialled into Creative Labs' bulletin board. They have new drivers dated
>around April 1994 there. However, I can't afford to download ~3 Mb of binaries
>through an overseas modem link.
>
>I contacted Creative Labs support in the US, who said yes, I do need the new
>drivers, but no, they cannot send me the new versions, I need to get in touch
>with the Singapore office (by that time, I had already spent around $40 for
>the phone call). Contacting Singapore, I was told to ring a different number
>to get the updated drivers. However, that number is disconnected :-(
>
>I am really sick of being given the runaround by Creative Labs, so, is anyone
>out there who has the drivers and could make them available on the Internet
>or post them to me?
>
>What I need are the DOS and Windows drivers, plus the ASP upgrade driver
>(CSPU.EXE). If someone can help me with this, I'd be happy to keep copies
>of the drivers on-line, and mail them to people on request. I don't believe
>there are any copyright issues involved, anyone can dial into Creative Labs'
>bulletin board or Compuserve and download the drivers.
>
>Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

The distributors (Computamart) have a BBS in Sydney. I haven't used it for
a couple of months but I guess it's still there. Try calling it on
02-906-8392. They *should* have the drivers.

Nick.

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