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(hx) 02:50 AM CET - Jan,12 2003
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- CES 2003 Day 1 - Happy Days Are Here Again - It's usually a
cold day in hell if I am happy about trudging around the Las Vegas Convention
Center. Part of it may have to do with Comdex, which leaves a lingering bad
taste in one's mouth for months afterwards. Part of it may have to do with the
lack of awe that a typical showfloor inspires. However,
CES 2003 has been different. Maybe it's because it isn't organized by the
Sons of Satan. Hmmm.
- CES 2003: Day 2 Coverage - AMDZone updates
their CES 2003 coverage with a shot of Geforce FX and several nForce 2
products.
- Nintendo President Interviewed -
In an
interview with the Nihon Kezai Shimbun, Nintendo's newly inaugurated,
43-year old president Satoru Iwata discussed the slowing sales of GameCube
hardware. Iwata noted that he hopes to offset the slump by more frequently
linking home consoles and handhelds as well as selling software and hardware
to China, which is overrun with piracy.
- LGP To Publish Bandits and Ballistic for Linux - Linux Game
Publishing (LGP) have announced the
next two titles
that they will be porting to Linux. They are both made by Grim, a Swedish
development company, and they are called Ballistics and Bandits: Phoenix
Rising.
- HT Adapter For Non-HT P4 Boards - Things have gone quite well since
we discovered there is a possibility of enabling HT on current P4s. Now
PowerLeap has designed
an adapter to allow hyperthreading (HT) on non-HT-ready P4 motherboards.
Also, the adapter is really a chipset mod - it makes the pre-HT versions of
the i845 and i850 allow HT to be enabled. However, it doesn't make HT work
with versions of the P4 that have it bonded-out except for the 3.06 GHz
version. Intel is launching P4 with HT enabled from speed grades of 2.4Ghz
onwards in a couple of months time so users might wish to upgrade their
processors then and enjoy HT without changing their older i845 and i850
boards. (check
this forum thread)
- Gateway Media Center PC with Plasma TV - The Media Center PC comes
in three versions: $1,599 direct with a 17-inch LCD monitor and Boston
Acoustic 745 speakers, $3,998 with a 42-inch plasma display (sourced from L.G.
Electronics), and $5,999 with a high-end Bose surround-sound system.
PC Magazine Labs tested the middle offering.
- Huge TI4200 8X Card Shootout - The GeForce4 has proved to be a
popular card for NVIDIA. We take 12 Ti 4200 cards from various manufacturers
and see just how they all compare against one another.
Looking
to buy a card soon ?. Read on.
- HyperSnap-DX v5.02.01 -
HyperSnap-DX is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It
captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab
DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. HyperSnap-DX 5 can
capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing
software.
- Ahead releases free Nero plugin for Windows Media Player 9 -
The
Nero Fast Burning Plug-in enables the Windows Media Player 9.0 Series to
burn CDs at full speed, up to 26 times faster than before, greatly decreasing
the time it takes for each burning session. In addition, the plug-in will
provide Windows Media Player 9.0 users the option of eliminating the
two-second gap between audio tracks.
- GameJack v2.00.208 - A new
GameJack version has
been released. This new version adds support for new recorder, removes
blacklists of various copy protections, e.g. for latest version of Gothic 2
and Empire Earth (Patch 2.0) , fixeds rare problem with "Shut Down" on various
systems and also adds support for StarForce version 1.0 and 2.0. (support for
3.0 is planned).
- GoldenHawk CDRWIN 3.9C -
Goldenhawk has released a
new version of CDRWin (mirror1
~
mirror2), their CD recording program supporting binary (.BIN), cue sheets
(.CUE), overburning, MP3 burning, disc copy, track ripping, and much more.
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