3D Blaster News Flash

Creative's 3D Blaster is leading the pack!Since its launch in early November, the 3D Blaster is taking the computer industry by storm. In this section, we'll keep youup-to-date with the latest breaking news on Creative's 3D Blaster and on the hottest new 3D software.

May 1996

3 New Exciting Titles Optimised for 3D Blaster

March 1996

Creative First To Deliver DIRECT3D Support

February 1996

January 1996

3 New Exciting Titles optimised for 3D Blaster

Creative has added 3 new titles to the growing list of 3D Blaster compatible titles : Gremlin Interactive’s Fatal Racing and Actua Soccer and Playmate Interactive Entertainment’s Battle Arena Toshinden. These fast action-packed games are being developed using Creative Graphics Library platform so that PC users can experience exceptional 3D quality on their PCs.

Creative First To Deliver DIRECT3D Support

Creative Technology Ltd. ((Nasdaq: CREAF), the leading provider of multimedia products for personal computers, announced today that its 3D Blaster™, the first consumer level3D accelerator, fully supports Microsoft's newly announced Direct3D API.Long recognized for establishing the standards for PC sound, Creative has been working closely with Microsoft and other industry leaders to definethe standards for 3D graphics. Microsoft's newly released beta of theDirectX SDK includes Direct 3D drivers for Creative's 3D Blaster productline.

Creative Labs takes next step in 3D graphics strategy

Creative has licensed the PERMEDIA™ 3D graphics core technologyfrom 3Dlabs™. This enables Creative to leverage its strengths in soundand communications to design future solutions that incorporate high-performance 2D and 3Dgraphics, audio and communications capabilities.

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Argonaut talks about the Creative 3D Blaster

Argonaut is the developer of the BRender 3D API. Argonaut explains in detail how BRender has helped existing games and also how it will help make the developerment of future 3D programmes easier. Some examples of existing games that make use of BRender include GTE Entertainment's FX Fighter and Phillips Media's Alien Odyssey.

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