Theresa Pulido               Lisa Kimura
Creative Labs, Inc.          Copithorne & Bellows

"Modem Blaster 28.8 External represents a great value, offering the same high standard that customers have come to expect from the Sound Blaster line," said Arnold Waldstein, vice president of U.S. software and product marketing for Creative Labs, Inc., Creative Technology's U.S. subsidiary. "With high speed 28.8, V.34 modem technology and a selection of leading software titles, this product gives users everything they need to surf, chat online, play modem-to-modem games, download data and fax documents, quickly and affordably."

Modem Blaster 28.8 External features a single CD with NetManage™'s Chameleon Internet Starter Kit, PSINet™'s InterRamp™ service, MindQ™'s Internet tutorial -- The Internet: A Knowledge Odyssey, and four online services including Compuserve®, America Online®, PRODIGY® and ImagiNation Network®. In addition, the product provides a single CD with two online games from Interplay Productions, Inc., including Virtual Pool™ Straight/8 and Descent™ Destination Saturn.

Modem Blaster 28.8 External is also bundled with Pacific Image Communications, Inc.'s SuperFax™ 6.0 fax and data software, featuring SuperTerminal for high speed data transfer, fax broadcasting, pager notification of new faxes, a phonebook, fax viewer and TWAIN support.

Modem Blaster 28.8 External rounds out Creative's line of communications offerings, including the Modem Blaster, Phone Blaster and ShareVision product lines. From its high speed 28.8, V.34 modem offerings to its desktop conferencing products, Creative offers a variety of communications solutions that fit the diverse needs of PC consumers.

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 Blaster® 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 Systems®, Inc., Digicom Systems, Inc. and ShareVision® 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.

Sound Blaster is a registered trademark and Blaster and Modem Blaster are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. E-mu is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc. and ShareVision is a registered trademark of ShareVision Technology, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized as such.