Sound Blaster Performance 6x Extends Creative's Line of High-End Multimedia
Kits

New Kit Provides Next Generation Wave Technology and Full Sound Blaster and
Windows 95 Compatibility

MILPITAS -- OCTOBER 24, 1995 -- Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq:CREAF)
today introduced Sound Blaster Performance 6x, a high performance
multimedia kit that provides Creative's next generation Sound Blaster
technologies, offering users a new level of multimedia computing at a
superior value. The Sound Blaster Performance 6x is the premiere product
in Creative's line of high performance multimedia kits. This kit combines
Creative's own 6x speed CD-ROM drive and the Sound Blaster 32 PnP
featuring EMU8000-based 32-voice wave table music synthesis, Creative's 3D
stereo enhancement, full Sound Blaster and Windows 95 compatibility and a
great bundle of software titles for entertainment and education. Sound
Blaster Performance 6x is designed to provide the user with the most
powerful combination of technologies for a more immersive multimedia
experience. It will be available this month at retail outlets for a
projected street price of $429.99.

"Sound Blaster Performance 6x is Creative's response to PC users who are
interested in upgrading their computer with the most advanced and
innovative technology at the most affordable price," said Arnold
Waldstein, vice president of U.S. software and product marketing for
Creative Labs, Inc., Creative Technology Ltd.'s U.S. subsidiary. "The
combination of Creative's new 6x speed CD-ROM drive, Creative's 3D stereo
enhancement, professional quality wave table synthesis, and a great
software bundle, offers users a more realistic environment for high-end
game play and a new standard in multimedia computing from the number one
multimedia brand."

Features of Sound Blaster Performance 6x

The Sound Blaster Performance 6x includes Creative's Sound Blaster 32 PnP
featuring: EMU8000-based wave-table synthesis for real instrument sounds,
special effects such as reverb, chorus, and panning, Creative's 3D Stereo
Enhancement for a richer more spacious sound, 32-voice polyphony,
CD-quality, 16-bit stereo recording and playback. Sound Blaster 32 PnP is
fully upgradeable to Creative's award-winning Sound Blaster AWE32. The
upgrade allows the user to take advantage of E-mu's 3D Positional Audio
and add Sound Fonts that allow new sounds and instruments to be loaded
onto the card. In addition Sound Blaster 32 PnP provides full support for
Windows 95, Windows 3.1 and DOS operating systems as well as complete
plug-and-play compatibility.

Sound Blaster Performance 6x features Creative's own 6x speed internal, IDE
CD-ROM drive which offers more than 900 KB per second transfer rate, a
data access rate of 220 ms and 256 KB of cache memory. It is
multi-session, Kodak Photo CD compatible, exceeds MPC Level 2
specifications and is CD-ROM XA ready. The drive also features an
automatic front-loading tray, a front panel headphone jack and volume
control for playback of audio CDs.

Sound Blaster Performance 6x also includes high-performance stereo speakers
and the following powerful titles for education and entertainment.

 FULL THROTTLE; and STAR WARS DARK FORCES SPECIAL EDITION
    from LucasArts Entertainment
 CYBERIA MISSION NORWAY; DESCENT DESTINATION SATURN;
    and VIRTUAL POOL STRAIGHT/8 from Interplay Productions, Inc.
 CYCLEMANIA and UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS 95 from Accolade
 NASCARR RACING from Papyrus
 HERETIC, EPISODE 1 from id Software
 PINBALL DREAMS DELUXE from 21st Century Entertainment

Educational Titles:

 GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA from Grolier Electronic Publishing
 EYEWITNESS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE and DAVID MACAULAY THE WAY
    THINGS WORK from DK Multimedia
 NICKELODEON DIRECTOR'S LAB from Viacom New Media
 (SPECIALLY ENHANCED FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE ON SOUND BLASTER AUDIO CARDS)

"Sound Blaster Performance 6x's leading-edge technology, ease- of-use and
broad spectrum of software titles makes it the ultimate upgrade kit for
the PC consumer," said Kim Federico, product marketing manager, multimedia
kits for Creative Labs, Inc. "This kit provides users with a new level of
multimedia by combining next generation 3D audio and wave table
capabilities with a high performance 6x drive."

Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a family of
sound, video, software telephony multimedia products for PCs under the
Blaster family name, and the ShareVision line of desktop video
conferencing products for Macintoshes and PCs. The company's Sound
BlasterR sound platform enables PCs to produce high-quality audio for
entertainment, educational, music and productivity applications, and has
been accepted as the industry standard sound platform for PC-based
software.

Creative Technology Ltd. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in
Singapore. Creative Technology's U.S. subsidiaries include Creative Labs,
Inc., E-mu SystemsR, Inc., Digicom Systems, Inc. and ShareVisionR
Technology, Inc. Creative also has other subsidiaries in Australia, China,
Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The company's
stock is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol CREAF and on the Stock Exchange
of Singapore.
 
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