Pouring one out for the Singaporean sound card pioneer.
, designed to be played on early sound cards like the AdLib and Roland MT-32, and the publisher went on to advertise those PC boards for sale in its own catalog of games.
Creative got a piece of that action by rebranding its card the “Game Blaster” in 1988, and in 1989, the company’s first Sound Blaster added a dedicated game port to plug in a joystick. That’s something that PC gamers usually had to buy separately and helped make the Sound Blaster look like an excellent deal over the AdLib.
Hoo’s determination made him a rare symbol of Singaporean startup success, as Creative became the first Singapore company to be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. In 1994,headline was literally “Entrepreneurial Company Defies Singapore Model,” and he went on to author a book called, to describe an underlying difficulty in becoming an entrepreneur in that era of Singapore culture.
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