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

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

Previously, John Carmack had experimented with a version of Quake specifically written for the Rendition Vérité chip used in the Creative Labs PCI 3D Blaster card.

* the filename extension for Creative Voice files, a proprietary audio file format developed by Creative Labs for use by their Soundblaster sound cards

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

Creative Labs was already Yamaha's biggest customer for music-based technology, generating a conflict of interest that delayed the Gold's development process.

Not long after its introduction, Creative Labs introduced the competing Sound Blaster card.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

Due to Aureal's acquisition ( see below ) the A3D technology is now part of the intellectual property of Creative Labs and some features may be licensed under different product names such as EAX.

EAX 1. 0, the competing technology at the time promoted by Creative Labs, simulated the environment with an adjustable reverb — it didn't calculate any actual reflections off the 3D surfaces.

Creative Labs sued Aureal for patent infringement in March 1998, and Aureal countersued for patent infringement and deceptive trade practices.

Creative then acquired Aureal's assets in September 2000 through the bankruptcy court with the specific provision that Creative Labs would be released from all claims of past infringement by Creative Labs upon Aureal's A3D technology.

Other examples include some C-Media PCI sound cards and Creative Labs ' X-Fi sound cards whose drivers have enabled support for DDL.

Creative Labs alleged Kawakami violated their intellectual property and demanded he cease distributing his modified drivers.

* Creative Labs Sound Blaster MCV, SKU: CT5320

* Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro 2 MCV, SKU: CT5330

available from Creative Labs, Hi-Val, and Diamond Multimedia in April and May of 1997.

Starting around 1993, with the introduction of Creative Labs ' Sound Blaster AWE32 and Gravis ' Ultrasound cards, the term " wavetable " started to be applied as a marketing term to any sound card that used PCM samples as the basis of sound creation.

Fandom has helped incubate related groups, including media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, filking, and furry fandom.

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

Nevertheless, the use of moors ( and particularly their heads ) as a heraldic symbol has been deprecated in North America, where racial stereotypes have been influenced by a history of Trans-Atlantic slave trade and racial segregation, and applicants to the College of Arms of the Society for Creative Anachronism are urged to use them delicately to avoid creating offensive images.

The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public.

Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the copyleft movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic " all rights reserved " copyright, dubbed " some rights reserved.

Beyond that, Creative Commons has provided " institutional, practical and legal support for individuals and groups wishing to experiment and communicate with culture more freely.

Creative Commons also has an Audit Committee, with two members: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling and Lawrence Lessig.

Since then, CC Korea has been actively promoting the liberal and open culture of creation as well as leading the diffusion of Creative Commons in the country.

The Creative Artists Agency's headquarters has been nicknamed the " Death Star " by the entertainment media.

Composer Matthew Herbert has been appointed the new Creative Director, and he will work alongside Micachu, Yann Seznec, Max de Wardener, Patrick Bergel, theatre director Lyndsey Turner and broadcast technologist Tony Churnside.

Ame has also graduated from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Creative Arts.

The new logo has been designed by Viewpoint Creative in Boston and replaced Aurora Bold Condensed with Gotham.

The Wellington campus primarily specializes in Design ( College of Creative Arts ) and Music ( New Zealand School of Music ), and has around 4, 000 students.

Its place has been largely taken by the Creative Foundation.

The Foundation has opened a medium scale theatre, conference and music venue in the heart of the Creative Quarter named Quarterhouse.

Following the monthly magazine The Quarter, which ran from 2003 – 2005, a new arts magazine Folkestone Creative has been published locally since 2005.

Creative destruction, sometimes known as Schumpeter's gale, is a term in economics which has since the 1950s become most readily identified with the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter, who adapted it from the work of Karl Marx and popularized it as a theory of economic innovation and the business cycle.

Creative destruction has also been linked to sustainable development.

The city has been described as one of the most neighborly of cities — new residents are often told that when someone says, " Let me know what I can do to help ," in Pine Lake, that's not an empty statement ( Atlanta Magazine ; Creative Loafing ).

The neurobiology of creativity has been addressed in the article " Creative Innovation: Possible Brain Mechanisms.

It has nurtured writers and artists such as Ray Bradbury, Roger Ebert, Lenny Kaye, Michael Moorcock and Trina Robbins ; and has generated such spin-offs as comic book fandom, media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming fandom, and furry fandom, sometimes collectively referred to as " fringe fandoms ".

The Open Content Project is now closed and has been succeeded by Creative Commons.

In relation to his efforts on these issues, President Ólafur has participated in the Global Creative Leadership Summit, organized by the Louise Blouin Foundation, in 2007 and 2008.