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.

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.

Creative Labs has not chosen to support the A3D API.

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.

In 1995, Hofstadter's book Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought was the first book ever sold by Amazon. com.

This article was later reprinted in the book The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 1.

In addition to tabletop role-playing, LARP was preceded and possibly influenced by the Society for Creative Anachronism, childhood games of make believe, play fighting, costume parties, roleplay simulations, Commedia dell ' arte, improvisational theatre, psychodrama, military simulations, and historical reenactment groups.

Creative misspellings and ASCII-art-derived words were also a way to attempt to indicate one was knowledgeable about the culture of computer users.

He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Space Quest III was written in Sierra's Creative Interpreter ( SCI ), which had 3-D capabilities.

The name " Society for Creative Anachronism " was coined by science fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley, an early participant, when the nascent group needed an official name in order to reserve a park for a tournament.

" The Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance is a Creative Arts and not handed out during the primetime telecast and, prior to 2009, was a juried award without nominations.

* Reich Star A table-top RPG which takes place in 2134, it was published by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson ( 1991 ) under the name of " Creative Encounters ".

In 1977, a U. S. district court ruled that a curriculum in TM and the Science of Creative Intelligence that was being taught in some New Jersey schools was religious in nature and in violation of the First Amendment.

The movement was formally established with the formation of the Japanese Creative Print Society in 1918, however, it was commercially less successful, as Western collectors preferred the more traditionally Japanese look of shin-hanga.

Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility.

This karuta set was produced by Discovery Creative under the supervision of Osaka City University Professor Nakagawa Makoto.

He was active in science fiction fandom and in the early years of the Society for Creative Anachronism under the name " Yang the Nauseating ", and co-founded the Great Dark Horde in 1971.

The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002.

In January 2009, the Creative Commons Korea Association was consequently founded as a non-profit incorporated association.

The city was selected to become the headquarters of the European institution Acp / Ue and as a City of Literature by UNESCO's Creative Cities Network.

According to critic David Ehrenstein, the term " Creative Accounting " was first used in 1968 in the film The Producers by Mel Brooks.

Senior deputy state coroner Jacqueline Milledge issued a statement saying responsibility was on the Big Day Out's promoters Creative Entertainment Australia, saying there was overwhelming evidence that crowd density was dangerous when Limp Bizkit went on stage.

In May 2006, Broadcast Magazine wrote " The Creative Future review will enhance the already high standing of Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media and technology.

TMS Director of Creative Services Fred Schecker commented, " We're excited to represent a comic that so many newspaper readers already know and love.

St George's South has been designated Leicester's new cultural quarter, and is already the site of the Leicester Creative Business Depot ( built on the old Leicester City Bus depot and keeping the initials ) and the Athena.

In addition to impressing some of the biggest names in the business, he soon came to the attention of drum and bass DJ Fabio, who signed Calibre to his influential Creative Source label.

The biggest chain was acquired in July, which was Leewards Creative Craft, Inc.

Martin Maynard flew to California where alliances were made with United Microware Industries, Cosmi, Creative Software and Broderbund, some of the biggest suppliers of VIC software at that time.