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>>BirAda+(OP)
> The company endured litigation for securities fraud for quite sometime, declared bankruptcy in December of 1994, and became Aureal Semiconductor Inc on the 9th of September in 1995. This company would also go bankrupt and later be acquired by Creative.

Aureal produced revolutionary audio cards, with real 3D audio - and I mean real. Close your eyes and you would track the sounds in the space around you with your eyes, from your hearing. It changed everything. I played HL with this, and CS too.

I may be wrong, but my understanding is Creative sued them into bankruptcy, bought what remained, and never used that technology. I have never forgiven Creative for this.

>>casenm+sl
I remember it like that, too. It wasn't a product war, it was a war of court battles. Creative had more money and was able to chip away at Aureal through litigation and caused their collapse.