Creative 3DO Blaster User's Guide
The 3DO Blaster User's Guide is Creative Technology's manual for the Creative 3DO Blaster, copyright 1994 and printed in Singapore. The copy hosted here is a scan of 41 images, a mix of single pages and two-page spreads, without a text layer. It was distributed as a comic-book archive in trapexit's 3DO-information collection on GitHub and has been assembled into a PDF with the images unchanged; the Internet Archive holds another copy.[1] The FCC ID printed in it, IBACT-MMU3DO, matches the label on the card.[2][3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]With the manual's own page numbers:
- Introduction and Before You Begin (pp. vi–ix): system requirements, the diskettes, conventions
- Chapter 1, Knowing Your 3DO Blaster (pp. 1-1 to 1-7): the VGA loopback, VGA feature connector and CD audio cables; the CD-ROM data, CD Audio-In, CD Audio-Out, VGA feature, VGA In, VGA Out, control port and FMV daughterboard connectors; the jumpers and the base I/O address jumper
- Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Hardware (pp. 2-1 to 2-12): fitting the card; connecting the Creative CD-ROM drive (drive ID 0), the control pad, the audio card, the VGA card and the monitor
- Chapter 3, Setting Up Your Software (pp. 3-1 to 3-7): SETUP.EXE, VoiceAssist files, and the configuration utility's changes to CONFIG.SYS (CD3DOBLT.SYS and SBCD.SYS) and AUTOEXEC.BAT (SET 3DOBLST)
- Chapter 4, Using 3DO Player (pp. 4-1 to 4-20): the player window and menus, control pad, keyboard and joystick emulation, screen modes, overlay display modes, volume, saving titles and the Storage Manager
- Chapter 5, Changing 3DO Blaster Hardware Setting (pp. 5-1 to 5-3): JP5 and the four base addresses, with the rules for avoiding a sound card's CD-ROM interface
- Appendix A, Using 3DO Video Overlay Setup (pp. A-1 to A-2)
- Appendix B, Troubleshooting Guide (pp. B-1 to B-2): six problems with causes and solutions
- Appendix C, Technical Support (pp. C-1 to C-3): Creative's support addresses in the United States, Europe and Asia
- Appendix D, 3DO Blaster General Specifications (pp. D-1 to D-2)
- Index
What it does not contain
[edit | edit source]- No schematic, board layout or component list, and nothing on the backup cell or the capacitors.
- No description of the FMV daughterboard beyond its connector, which "allows for future upgrades".
- No model number for the card; the CT6110 number is on the card's own label.[3]
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- Creative 3DO Blaster: requirements, specifications, connections and start-up files
- Creative 3DO Blaster General Maintenance: handling, cables, save memory, jumpers
- Creative 3DO Blaster Troubleshooting Guide: Appendix B, Appendix A, chapter 5, the Storage Manager
- Goldstar GDO-101M 3DO: the split of the 3DO's memory into main RAM and VRAM
Document
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Download: Creative 3DO Blaster User's Guide 1994.pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ trapexit, 3DO-information repository, file "hardware/manuals/3DO Blaster User's Guide (1994)(U).cbr", https://github.com/trapexit/3DO-information (retrieved 1 October 2026); Internet Archive item 3DO_Blaster_Users_Guide_1994_Creative_Technologies.
- ↑ Creative Technology Ltd., 3DO Blaster User's Guide (Singapore, 1994): Chapter 1 "Knowing Your 3DO Blaster" (pp. 1-1 to 1-6), Chapter 2 "Setting Up Your Hardware" (pp. 2-1 to 2-12), Chapter 3 "Setting Up Your Software" (pp. 3-1 to 3-7), Chapter 4 "Using 3DO Player" (pp. 4-1 to 4-20, Storage Manager pp. 4-19 to 4-20), Chapter 5 "Changing 3DO Blaster Hardware Setting" (pp. 5-1 to 5-3), Appendix A "Using 3DO Video Overlay Setup", Appendix B "Troubleshooting Guide", Appendix D "3DO Blaster General Specifications" (pp. D-1 to D-2). Hosted here as File:Creative 3DO Blaster User's Guide 1994.pdf; see Creative 3DO Blaster User's Guide.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Creative Blaster, archive3do.com—link(accessed 2026-10-01) Photographs of a working card, its CR-563-B drive and the host PC; the label on the solder side reads "MODEL NO: CT 6110" and "FCC ID : IBACT-MMU3DO".