The device is now sitting in my closet collecting dust. My only options were to either find someone else with the same device and copy their driver disc, or look on eBay for an auction of the device with its software. Unfortunately, they stopped offering the drivers for download about two years ago. “No problem”, I said to myself I went to Creative’s website searching for drivers. When I plugged it into a WinXP system, however, Windows insisted on installing drivers that I obviously didn’t have. I had confirmed that the device worked, and therefore was salable (or so I thought). Well, after rigging up a power supply from my parts bin, I plugged it into my Mac and OS X immediately recognized it and allowed me to play sounds and do other functions with it. It was bare, no power supply or software. I recently picked up a first-gen SoundBlaster Extigy (external USB sound device) from a thrift store for $5, with the intention of selling it for $15 or so to someone who needed such a thing, once I determined that it worked. So it is true that older windows drivers are getting harder to find.
