This was bundled with " multimedia upgrade kits ", comprising a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro.

Jeffrey Lee Parson, a. k. a. T33kid, was an 18-year-old high school student from Minnesota who was responsible for spreading a variant of the infamous Blaster computer worm.

Digital audio ( PCM ) was not supported, a key feature supported by later competition ( such as the Creative Labs Sound Blaster.

When the Gold card was finally released, the Sound Blaster series was entrenched as the de-facto PC sound card standard, and priced significantly cheaper than the Adlib Gold.

The Sound Blaster was fully compatible with AdLib's hardware, meaning it would play any past, present, and future game written for AdLib's own card.

There was also a problem which made the 6x86 incompatible with the then-popular Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card.

Inevitably, the balance was largely redressed with the introduction of the Sound Blaster AWE32 and its successors, which also featured on-board RAM and wavetable mixing.

The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was the de facto standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, until the widespread transition to Microsoft Windows 95, which standardized the programming interface at application level ( eliminating the importance of backward compatibility with Sound Blaster ), and the evolution in PC design led to onboard motherboard-audio, which commoditized PC audio functionality.

The Sound Blaster 1. 0, CT1320A, was released in 1989.

Sound Blaster MCV, CT5320, was a version created for IBM PS / 2 model 50 and higher and their ISA-incompatible MicroChannel bus.

The Blaster Pro, CT1330, announced in May 1991, was the first significant redesign of the card's core features.

The Sound Blaster Pro was fully backward compatible with the original Sound Blaster, and by extension, the AdLib sound card.

The Sound Blaster Pro was the first Creative sound card to have a built-in CD-ROM interface.

The Sound Blaster Pro 2 was fully backward compatible with the original Sound Blaster, and by extension, the AdLib sound card.

The Sound Blaster Pro 2 was also sold with the following on-board CD-ROM controllers:

The Sound Blaster Pro 2 MCV, CT5330, was a version created for IBM PS / 2 model 50 and higher and their MicroChannel bus.

The Sound Blaster ViBRA16 was an inexpensive single-chip implementation of the Sound Blaster 16 for the OEM market.

A derivative of the AWE32 design, the Sound Blaster 32 ( SB32 ) was a value-oriented offering from Creative.

The AWE32's successor, the Sound Blaster AWE64 ( November 1996 ), was significantly smaller, being a " half-length ISA card " ( that term is misleading — see the pictures for size comparison ).

The series was later seen in the second version of Reading Blaster: Vocabulary and has not recurred since.

She saved them from Master Blaster as seen in the intro.

Blaster was among the Autobot resistance during the Age of Interment, shown in the third War Within series.

In Spotlight: Blaster Trypticon appeared in a flashback among the Decepticon forces led by Razorclaw who attacked the Autobots on Cybertron just after Blaster was attacked.

This proved to be the last straw for the Autobots under Grimlock's command, who collectively conspired to overthrow him, arranging for Blaster to challenge Grimlock for leadership.

With all Autobots now under attack from their mortal enemies, Grimlock and Blaster put their differences aside and fought alongside each other against the Decepticon horde.

A short time later, Starscream was given ownership of the Star Saber as part of a scheme by Thrust to make him the patsy in his plan to steal the Requiem Blaster from the Autobots.

The Decepticons recover more quickly and stage a new offensive against the Autobots, who suffer the loss of the charismatic Blaster, the voice of the Autobot resistance: he is shot and set adrift in space by a traitor.

After battling with Blaster and Goldbug the Autobots became infected as well.

In the episode # 33, " Sacrifice ", the Decepticon tactician Thrust offers to Megatron his " Master Plan " to get the Requiem Blaster from the Autobots with the aid of a drawing-out maneuver.

He was present when Blaster was recovered and returned to the Autobots.

", Perceptor summoned his fellow Autobots Blaster, Hot Spot, Jetfire, Omega Supreme, Ratchet and Silverbolt in order to decide who should take leadership of the Autobots.

Omega was present when Grimlock and Blaster battled for leadership of the Autobots, and later, after Optimus Prime's return, was part of the force that was attacked by the two Decepticon factions under Ratbat and Scorponok, being taken out by Buzzsaw.

After a brief side adventure in the UK comics, in which Blaster's group are attacked ( and almost killed ) by the insane future Decepticon Galvatron, Blaster and his men join up with the main Autobots on Earth.

", Perceptor summons his fellow Autobots Blaster, Hot Spot, Jetfire, Omega Supreme, Ratchet and Silverbolt in order to decide who should take leadership of the Autobots.

Blaster encounters time-traveling Autobots who intended to deal with Galvatron, a plot detailed in the UK comics.

This was not the end for Blaster ; he is one of the Autobots revived by Nucleon by Grimlock and the other Dinobots.

He had several important appearances in season 2, most notably in " Blaster Blues ", where his love of rock music and transmitting it to the other Autobots meant they were unable to respond to a Decepticon attack and prevent them from stealing a powerful decoder.

In order to lure Optimus in, Chumley captures the Autobots Tracks, Bumblebee, Jazz, Beachcomber, Grapple, Blaster and Inferno.

Having little memory of the event himself, Blaster finds that he was betrayed and nearly killed by a fellow Autobot just before his regular broadcast, in order to demoralize the Autobots just before a Decepticon attack.

Blaster is one of the many Autobots aboard the Ark in Do Over by Fun Publications.

Blaster is spotlighted in the story Blitzwing Bop where he is one of two Autobots who were not affected by a radio disruption broadcast by the Decepticon Blitzwing.

In order to lure Optimus, in Cholmondeley captured the Autobots Tracks, Bumblebee, Jazz, Beachcomber, Grapple, Blaster and Inferno.

Curing the plague, the Throttlebots joined Blaster and Goldbug on the road, eventually being hunted down by the Autobots ( under Grimlock's command ), the Combaticons and R. A. A. T.

He was present when Blaster was recovered and returned to the Autobots.