Hij leek morsdood, maar nu komt Videologic toch eindelijk met de officiële aankondiging van de PowerVR Series 2. Een half jaartje te laat en wat betreft de specs lijkt-ie dan ook geen concurrent voor de TNT2 en V3:

VideoLogic -- the international company that develops, designs and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics accelerator and audio products for PCs, games consoles and arcade entertainment machines -- has today announced its first 2D/3D graphics add-in card based on the PowerVR Series2 technology. Neon 250 is being publicly shown for the first time at CeBIT '99 from 18 - 24th March in Hannover, Germany (Hall 9, stand A78).

The VideoLogic Neon 250, an outstanding card for gamers, features a massive 16mb of high performance SDRAM memory, a 25OMhz RAMDAC, 125MHz clock-speed, the PowerVR 250 processor and full 2X AGP support. Retail units are expected to ship in June 1999, with an RRP of less than 125 British pounds sterling ex. VAT ($199).

Zie de press release bij Yahoo.

Phoenix Technologies (bekend van de BIOSsen) en AMD zijn vriendjes geworden, wat blije gevolgen kan hebben voor de K7:

The agreement expands an existing relationship, under which San Jose, Calif.-based Phoenix has directly supported AMD's ICs. The two companies said the new pact will extend their presence in the desktop and portable PC marketplace as well as eventually provide software and products for powerful servers and workstation systems based on AMD's K7 microprocessors. Plans are also set to support networking, telecommunications, and industrial control-system designs based on AMD's semiconductor offerings.

Meer geblah vind je bij Techweb.

Hercules heeft vandaag z'n Dynamite TNT2 videokaart aangekondigd. Zoals de naam doet vermoeden zit er een TNT2 op. De specs:

With 32 MB of high performance display memory on-board and an inte-grated 300MHz RAMDAC, the Hercules Dynamite TNT/2TM delivers true color (32bpp) up to 2048x1536. Easy clock adjustment with Hercules HercuMeterTM Utility Hercules' enhanced High-Performance/Wide-BandwidthTM hardware design with about 3.0GB/second memory peak bandwidth takes full advantage of the RIVA TNT2's performance potential. An efficient active cooling device ensures board stability, even under adverse conditions. For further perform-ance enhancement and flexibility, the Hercules HercuMeterTM utility allows users to fine tune the Hercules Dynamite TNT/2TM's engine and memory clock for optimum performance. Maximum clock speed values vary with resolution, color depth and application.

De complete info vind je in de press release bij GA-Source.

CPU Central heeft een kleine preview met de specs van de Powerleap PL-PII socket 370 riser card. Het ding belooft erg interessant te worden voor dual-celeron bouwers:

PowerLeap will be releasing very soon probably the best Slotket ever - the PowerLeap PL-PII.Their adapter will support dual CPU motherboards without modification to the adatper. It will also allow hardware control of the core voltage, clock multiplier, and external bus speed (66/100) - an overclocker's dream.

Volgens AGN-3D is er een speelbare demo uitgekomen van de add-on van Battlezone. Zie dit stukje van AGN 3D:

Blue reports that a playable demo of the The Red Odyssey add-on for BattleZone is available from Evolve. the demo offers 3 missions to play ad is 22MB. The full version of Battlezone is required to play the addon demo.

Hardware One heeft een review gebakken van de 21" Viewsonic P810 monitor. Van een 21" monitor zou je mogen verwachten dat-ie lekker werkt op 1600x1200 maar dat blijkt bij de Viewsonic niet het geval te zijn:

Digital pictures look fantastic with realistic colours and proper contrast. Text is amazingly sharp at 1280x1024 (large fonts) even though I'm using a pass-through cable from my Voodoo2s. What I recommend is 1280x1024 (large fonts) and not 1600x1280.

Why you may ask? Well, at 1600x1280, you have to pump up the fonts size to 150% (large fonts is only 125%) which makes things look weird. And also, surfing is a pain as pre-rendered graphics (with text) look extremely tiny and hard to read. Also, if you're using a pass-through cable or a TNT (known to be terrible at 1600x1280), the text at 1600x1280 will be fuzzy. 1280x1024 on the other hand is VERY confortable with a flicker-free 85hz refresh and very easily readable (and clear) text even with pre-rendered web page text.

Hmm...toch wel matig (of heeft die reviewer gewoon slechte ogen?

Logitech is heeft een force feedback muis in ontwikkeling, voor toepassing in games e.d. Hier heb je de info van THG Technews:

Logitech plans to ship a force-feedback mouse for gaming, based on FEELit technology from Immersion Corp.

The mouse will be available at street prices under $150, in time for the Christmas 1999 selling season.

According to the company, the vast majority of PC games sold today are designed for control by a mouse, or mouse-plus-keyboard combination. With the introduction of the force-feedback mouse, developers will now be able to provide feel sensations in all kinds of games, including first-person, real-time strategy, role-playing, adventure, sports, simulation, strategy, war, hunting, classics, puzzles and edutainment titles.

More information on the technology is available at http://www.force-feedback.com.

Nog meer processor nieuws van de CeBIT: AMD heeft een demonstratie gegeven van de K7. Het ding draaide in een Alpha systeem, tegen een kloksnelheid van 600MHz:

Gary Bixler, K7 product marketing manager at AMD's Austin microprocessor division, said: "The K7's going to very high performance and will allow us to compete [with Intel] from the lowest to the highest level. The combination of the K7 and the K6 will allow us to compete with Intel and the K7 will compete in the high end space."

[...]He claimed that the K7, at release date, would match and surpass anything that Intel could produce on the 32-bit platform. He also said that higher frequency K6-IIIs would be rolled out during the year.

The Register heeft een nieuwsbericht met veel info over de K7 demonstratie.

Intel heeft vandaag op de CeBIT in Hannover een Xeon prototype op 800MHz lopen showen:

Regarding the future, Intel unveiled knowledge management features and indexing run on an 800 MHz chip. "This can very quickly go over a GB of information and pull it down to exactly what you want to look at in seconds," said Gelsinger. He claimed this was "the fastest machine ever demonstrated in Europe. The Formula One race car of processors," adding: "This gives you some idea of the headroom in the Intel processor family."

Daarnaast werden nieuwe 500 en 550MHz Xeon (produktie) modellen voorgesteld. Zie The Register voor het complete nieuwsbericht.

Thresh's Firingsquad heeft een review van de Diamond HomeFree Wireless op de site geknikkerd. Hier's wat info over deze draadloze netwerkset:

Each network card has a built-in transmitter/receiver, and the system operates on the 2.4GHz frequency. This is well above the range of normal 900MHz phones, but it remains to be seen what affect, if any, the new 2.4GHz phones may have on a Homefree network.

Diamond claims that the network has a 150ft range, but doesn't specify if this range is "outdoor" (open air, no obstacles) or "indoor" (enclosed space, many obstacles). Either way, the range should be sufficient for most households.

De snelheid van de HomeFree set varieert van 16 tot 50Kb/s (afhankelijk van de omgeving waarin je je bevindt). Weliswaar erg traag vergeleken met een normaal NE2000 kaartje, maar niet slecht voor draadloze overdracht (en da's wel zo relaxed als je geen zin hebt om je huis met kabels te beleggen).

BXB heeft een artikel gepost waarin wordt uitgelegd hoe je zelf een temperatuursensor in elkaar kunt knutselen. Dat is errug handig als je een BM6 of BX6-II hebt, want die worden niet geleverd met een sensor hoewel ze er wel een aansluiting voor hebben:

heh... You have just found my photo illustrated article on how to (for less than $5.00 U.S.) build your own thermistor probe which you can use to measure system component temperatures with the new Abit BX6-2, BM6 or other compatible mainboard equipped with the Winbond W83782D chip and a thermistor header.

...Through having the ability to properly measure temperatures within your system and its components, a thermistor can help you determine areas (CPU, hard drives, video card) which may need additional cooling to achieve complete stabilization and possibly even higher performance in some cases.

De rest vind je bij BXBoards.

3DFiles heeft een beta van Powerstrip met support voor de ATI Rage 128:

The Rage 128 doesn't really need any third-party support, but since a handful of registered users have scored these boards, the PowerStrip beta here includes Rage 128 support under 9x and NT. In addition to providing in-game gamma and the other usual PowerStrip controls, simply running this build with a Rage 128 will automatically "reveal" the additional OpenGL and D3D property sheets that are provided, but "hidden" by ATI in the interests of WHQL certification.

Je kunt de 650K grote file hier downloaden.

Samsung gaat de eerste 256Meg SDRAM reepjes in massa productie bakken. De nieuwe DIMMs draaien op maximaal 167Mhz, wat uiteraard bijzonder relaxed is voor overklokken. Hier een stuk uit de press release van Samsung:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has become the world's first manufacturer to begin mass-production of the 256M SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory).

Samsung will start by supplying major PC and systems manufacturers, such as Intel, IBM, Siemens, Dell, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, and the company is planning to produce as many as 2 to 3 million 256M SDRAMs, equaling a 1999 sales target of US$200 to 300 million. The device is slated to become the highest volume memory product, and in 2002 the world market for 256M products is expected to reach US$24 billion.

Significance of 256M SDRAM Mass Production

While other semiconductor manufacturers are still working to complete development of 256M SDRAMs, Samsung Electronics delivered its first 256M SDRAM samples in 1998. Industry analysts have predicted that mass production would become possible in the year 2000 at the earliest, but Samsung has entered the market at least 6 months ahead of the competition.

Samsung's 256M SDRAMs use state-of-the-art 0.18-micron process technology, allowing the company to improve performance and efficiency. Moreover, the company will apply this technology to its current 64M and 128M SDRAM product offerings.

Impact on the Memory Market

Samsung Electronics' 256M SDRAM uses the same package footprint as the current 64M and 128M SDRAM. It is well suited to the rapidly-growing memory requirements in servers, workstations and high-performance PCs. The 256M SDRAM is also suitable for use in systems of ever-higher integration, where smaller form-factor and lower power dissipation are essential trends.

The new device is also fully compatible with the current PC-100 and PC-133 standards, and can extend performance up to 167MHz/second. Concurrently, Samsung expects to complete development of a 256M Rambus® DRAM in April to further expand its product offering and technological leadership.

NFS4.com heeft weer een paar nieuwe screenshots van the Need for Speed 4 geupt. Check ze uit.

de zoveelste, maargoed... je ziet maar of je het lezen wil:
have fun

Over the past few days, there have been rumors floating around that Matrox might be showing off their new G400 chip at CeBit and GDC. Well, the latter is true for sure. This morning, HardwareCentral attended a press conference put on by Matrox about their G400 product. Matrox showed us some specs, explained some of the new technology being implemented in their newest product, showed off their technology demo and also gave some performance numbers. From what we've seen at GDC so far, this is the most eye-catching product.

Eerder vandaag al liet ik je weten dat Sun niet meer in de Merced geloofd. Nou kan ik me daar iets bij voorstellen gezien de ontwikkelingen van de Alpha bij Compaq, maar het gaat Sun zelf ook niet voor de wind.

Sources close to Sun Microelectronics said today that while Sun could conceivably tape out UltraSparc III by year end, it likely would be Q2 of 2000 before we see systems.

The insider told The Register that Compaq's Alpha chip, now CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer's preferred high end processor over Merced, was on target and would deliver high performance and low price, as already revealed here.

Said the insider: "EV67 is already taped out and EV68 will tape out soon after. Sun Microsystems does not have any chance of competing with the type of benchmarks the Alpha is displaying."

Is dit nou die van de pot en de ketel?

Jawel mensen, het feest barst weer los. Microsoft krijgt weer een paar lekkere handen modder naar zich toe!

Microsoft licensed Java to kill Netscape, Sun CEO Scott McNealy claims.

Speaking at CeBIT in Hanover, McNealy said Microsoft followed the licensing rules for about a year and a half, until it had damaged Netscape sufficiently.

For Microsoft to drop Java support would be as serious a step as junking support for TCP/IP, he argued.

McNealy used a Coca-Cola analogy: Microsoft had stuck to the (Java) formula, but suddenly it added three drops of poison to the formula, and shipped a Windows virtual machine.

het hele gevecht is te lezen bij The Register

Eerder hadden we je al verteld dat Intel met een dealtje een rechtzaak met de de Federale Handels Commissie (FTC) heeft weten te voorkomen. de FTC ziet in de VS o.a. toe op monopolie posities. The Register heeft daar een geinige beschouwing op.

Reports in the San Jose Mercury News late yesterday said that one reason Intel has got off the Federal Trade Commission's hook is because it promised to be more "sharing" in the future. The newspaper reported sources close to the FTC as saying that it will now give advance information to its customers (such as Compaq) even if they appear to be in some way or other competing with them. According to the report, the FTC is to announce details of the deal when the US gets up out of bed, later today. The settlement did not include discussions of the monopoly Intel is alleged to have, according to the report. Waarom toch vertrouw ik hier niet op? Reuzen als deze hebben niet echt de neiging uit te kijken als ze in het park worden losgelaten. Vroeger of later wordt er denk ik toch wel weer iemand onder de voet gelopen. The Register wist vervolgens ook een iets uitgebreidere onschijvingvan de deal te vinden.

Well that didn’t take long. Last week Intel looked set for a short sharp shock in court with the FTC. This week, the company has wriggled more or less completely free from the anti-trust charges levelled against the company. For the Federal Trade Commission settlement -- agreed with Intel last week behind closed doors -- is not exactly a heavy cross for Intel to bear. The FTC says that Intel must "take no steps to impede, alter, suspend, or withhold advance technical information "for reasons related to an intellectual property dispute with such customer.". A copy of the full judgment must be posted on Intel's web site for one month. And Intel must report back to the FTC for five years to show it is complying with the settlement. But the company retains the general right to withhold technical and product information from customers. Intel says the adjudication protects its intellectual property rights. Even more satisfyingly, Intel escapes being tarred with the monopolist brush. Although the company controls well over 80 per cent of the microprocessor market, the FTC appears to conclude that there is still enough space for vigorous and successful competition Jep, Intel komt hier wel heel goedkoop af... Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Merced is kassie wijlen? Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 03:05 • 0 reacties, bron: TheRegister Als je The Register moet geloven wel. Jammer voor allen die het toch wel zagen zitten om zo'n octal Merced render-fabriek op de plank te hebben. Gisteren melde The register al dat Sun er niet meer in geloofde, The question of Intel's Merced's future has again come into focus as a senior executive from Sun Microelectronics described it as a "failure". Harlan McGhan, architecture marketing manager at Sun Microelectronics in California, said: "Everybody's agreed that Merced is already a failure. I'm not expecting very much from Merced and it's a lot more expensive than its x.86 chips."

maar daar blijft het niet bij, ook Compaq, een grote afnemer van intel, verklaart dit.

Insiders at Compaq have told The Register that the company is now taking a long hard look at whether Merced is worth bothering with at all. According to our highly unofficial source, Merced is showing little signs of life at the corporation. Engineers at Compaq whose job it was to look at the Merced architecture are now being told to occupy their time looking at other projects, our deep throat said. If true, this is extremely bad news for Intel. Compaq is, in public at least, continuing its support for Merced. But in private, it is determined to press ahead with fast EV67 and EV68 platforms, we are informed. Very soon now, Compaq will demonstrate Win64 on the Alpha platform Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Sharp Draagbare PC VideoCam. Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:55 • 0 reacties, bron: Coolinfo ach ja... als je er 1400 gulden voor over hebt... Sharp Electronics Corp. said Wednesday it will introduce this summer a palm-sized digital video camera that will cost about $700 and will record video images for viewing on personal computers. The home electronics manufacturer said its new VN-EZ1 Internet ViewCam will enable users to shoot and save up to 60 minutes of video to removable SmartMedia storage software. The video files can then be transferred to personal computers. The user can then send the file containing the video via e-mail or post it on a Web site. The system will use Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news)'s Advanced Streaming Format, which allows viewing as the video is downloaded, without requiring special software. It will also use a data compression technique that will squeeze the video image data into file sizes that can be more easily sent over the Internet than the larger file sizes that discouraged Internet video use. ``Posting and transferring digital still images on 'the Net' has become fairly routine for consumers and business people alike,'' Mike Lyons, director of marketing, Sharp Mobile Information Systems Division, said in a statement. ``Now, with the Internet ViewCam, we're allowing digital video to follow the same route. And that means no more hassles with large video files and long download times.'' Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers G400 Preview @ 4Gamers Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:49 • 2 reacties, bron: Coolinfo rest is hier te vinden. Reacties (2) Lees meer Computers Celeron 433 komt maandag. Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:45 • 0 reacties, bron: Coolinfo Sources close to Intel confirmed today that it will introduce its 433MHz version of the Celeron this coming Monday. The 466MHz Celeron part is now expected to arrive in June. The 433MHz Celeron will cost around $165 at launch and will come in both Slot One and socket versions. But our sources tell us that Intel has now accelerated the death of Slot One Celerons and that by the middle of the year, only 370-pin Celerons will be available to both OEMs and the channel. Intel refused to comment on unannounced products at press time. Gouden tijden gaan aanbreken voor de fabrikanten van Slotket alike kaartjes... mark my words. Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Maak je eigen Thermometer Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:41 • 0 reacties, bron: AGNhardware BXBoards heeft een artikeltjegeklust over het zelf bouwen van een thermometertje zodat je die zwaar overgeklokte CPU van je iets beter in de smiezen kan houden... [...] how to (for less than $5.00 U.S.) build your own thermistor probe which you can use to measure system component temperatures with the new Abit BX6-2, BM6 or other compatible mainboard equipped with the Winbond W83782D chip and a thermistor header. Through having the ability to properly measure temperatures within your system and its components, a thermistor can help you determine areas (CPU, hard drives, video card) which may need additional cooling to achieve complete stabilization and possibly even higher performance in some cases. Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Team Fortress met Intel tech Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:35 • 0 reacties, bron: AGN3D Nee, het gaat hier niet om de nieuwe P3 instructies, maar om een techniek met de naam MRM (Multi Resolution Mesh) Technologie. Valve, de maker van Half-Life gaat deze techniek in TeamFortress2 toepassen. This technology will allow Valve to create a "scaleable" game with highly detailed, realistic looking models that automatically adjust performance to the gamer's PC. "We believe the PC is the ultimate entertainment platform," said Gabe Newell, Valve co-founder and managing director. "By combining Intel's new MRM technology with our own Parametric Animation skeletal modeling system, we're able to create realistic-looking models that move the way real people do. This represents a huge advance in terms of making PC entertainment more appealing for a broader spectrum of users." Reacties (0) Lees meer Games Samenwerking Canopus & NVidia! Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:31 • 0 reacties, bron: AGN3D Nog maar kortgeleden berichtten we over Canopus: ze stopten met produceren van Videokaarten. Daar zijn ze dan toch verdomde snel op terug gekomen. Volgens een press release van Nvidia : Customers developing RIVA TNT2-based graphics cards include: ASUS, Canopus, Diamond Multimedia, ELSA, Guillemot, Hercules and Leadtek, with more add-in-card and Tier one OEM announcements to come Nou jij weer? Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Unreal Tournement snipper nieuws Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:24 • 0 reacties, bron: AGN3D Gamespot UK heeft een interview, met Jay Wilbur waar gepraat wordt over Unreal Tournament. Ook bieden ze enige info over de Tournament demo. De html versie kun je hier bekijken, maar ook kun je een filmpje downen dat je het een en ander van het spelletje toont (90MB). Reacties (0) Lees meer Games Frontline Award Winners Door Reinder Gerritsen, 18 maart 1999 02:17 • 0 reacties, bron: AGN3D Frontline Awards is een van de vele competities waar fabrikanten prijzen kunnen winnen voor hun producten. Winners of the second annual Front Line Awards, sponsored by Game Developer magazine, were announced after the opening of the 1999 Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. The awards went to developers whose tools pushed the limits of creativity in the area of computer-game development in 1998. Here are a couple: Graphics Hardware: Consumer Graphics Cards Viper V550 by Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. Art: Modeling & Animation Environs Maya by Alias/Wavefront Art: Modeling & Animation Plug-Ins Surface Tools by Digimation Inc. Art: Image Editing & Manipulation DarkTree Textures by Darkling Simulations Art: Video Editing & Compositing Ultimatte Software by Ultimatte Corp. Graphics Hardware: Pro Graphic Cards Wildcat 4000 by Intergraph Corp. Audio Hardware: Consumer Sound Cards Sound Blaster Live! by Creative Labs Inc. Reacties (0) Lees meer ISOC Awards 2002 uitgereikt Nieuws van 3 december 2002 Computers John Carmack over SGI 320 Door Femme Taken, 18 maart 1999 01:19 • 0 reacties, bron: AGN3D John Carmack heeft z'n .plan file geupdate met z'n ervaringen met de Silicon Graphics Visual Workstation 320 (die nieuwe koele geile WinNT Silicon): he super memory system does not appear to have provided ANY benefit to the CPU. My memory benchmarking tests showed it running about the same as a standard intel design. Our first graphics testing looked very grim -- Quake3 didn't draw the world at all. I spent a while trying to coax some output by disabling various things, but to no avail. We reported it to SGI, and they got us a fix the next day. Some bug with depthRange(). Even with the fix, 16 bit rendering doesn't seem to work. I expect they will address this. Other than that, there haven't been any driver anomolies, and both the game and editor run flawlessly. For single pass, top quality rendering (32 bit framebuffer, 32 bit depth buffer, 32 bit trilinear textures, high res screen), the SGI has a higher fill rate than any other card we have ever tested on a pc, but not by too wide of a margin. Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers John Romero interview Door Femme Taken, 18 maart 1999 01:15 • 0 reacties, bron: AGN3D Extreme Annihilatin heeft een babbelsessie gehad met onze held John Romero. Hier een paar Q&A'tjes: MGON: After over half of the Daikatana team left, how has production come along? John: Really well. I'm very glad they left; we needed to get rid of them. Now, we have some very professional guys working for us. MGON: What caused them to leave? John: Oh, just a lot of stuff. We had some fired employees get together and revolt with them, and stuff like that. It was just a mess. MGON: How much of the content that the original team produced is going to make it into the final release? John: What you're looking at right now has no content from the original team whatsoever. We completely started over. I don't think we would have been able to accomplish nearly as much as we have without the new team. It's going to be really kick-ass. Reacties (0) Lees meer John Romero wil 'mmog-achtige shooter' maken Nieuws van 6 april 2012 Games Intel released 500MHz Xeon Door Femme Taken, 18 maart 1999 01:10 • 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme Intel gooit een 500MHz versie van z'n Xeon op de markt. Hier de info van C|Net: Intel boasts that the new chip, which runs at 500 MHz and contains up to 2MB of performance-enhancing cache memory will put it in the same class as Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) chips, the powerful processors that run many high-end corporate servers and workstations. With this chip, Intel and the PC powers aim to take market share from companies that sell multiprocessor RISC and Unix operating system-based products, such as Sun Microsystems. The 500-MHz Pentium III Xeon comes with 512KB, 1MB, or 2MB of cache memory and can be used in one-, two- or four-processor systems. Intel will then release a 550-MHz version of the chip containing 512KB of cache memory in April, while versions with 1MB and 2MB of cache memory that can be used in four- and eight-processor systems will follow in the third quarter. The chip will exceed 600 MHz before the end of the year, added Paul Otellini, general manager of the Intel Architecture Business Group. Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers AMD K6-III 400 review Door Femme Taken, 18 maart 1999 01:07 • 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme Home of Lost Circuits de AMD K6-III 400 gereviewed. Er zit behoorlijk veel info in waarin je alles te weten komt over de L1/ L2/L3 cache en CXT core van de K6-III. Hier wat info over de resultaten met de Winstone99 benchmarks: The business suite of Winstone98 brought out a few surprising results. First, there is not too much impact of the system bus frequency on the performance of the AMD K6-III. At 6x 66 MHz, however there is definitely a performance hit compared to the 4x100 MHz setting (run on the Iwill XA100 Plus). In addition, the Sharptooth performs significantly better than the K6-2 or a PentiumII running on the ASUS P2B with otherwise identical hardware at 3x 140 MHz (timed by WS98 as running at 416 MHz). The most surprising result, however, turned out to be the performance of the Shuttle HOT 603 reaching the high-score of 30.9 WS98 marks at 75x5.5 (413) Mhz. Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Matrox OpenGL beta 2 Door Femme Taken, 18 maart 1999 01:03 • 0 reacties, bron: OpenGL.org Matrox heeft de tweede beta van z'n G200 OpenGL drivers (jaja, na 3/4 jaar zijn ze er eindelijk) gereleased. Info over de driver (met o.a. een performance vergelijking met de OpenGL wrapper) vind je hier. De drivers kun je hier neerladen. Reacties (0) Lees meer Computers Nascar Revolution review Door Femme Taken, 18 maart 1999 01:00 • 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme Games.net heeft een review van Nascar Revolution. Hier een stuk over de graphics: Tech problems aside, the graphics are decently sharp (as you'd expect from 3Dfx), and smoke and fog effects are all present and accounted for. The motion-captured pit crew animation is excellent. And with the car-damage option turned on, it's great to see the bumper crumple as you hit the guy in front of you, and watch little bits and pieces flying around. But the cars could have been rendered to look smoother (EA, see NFSIII). Another gripe: Win the race, and you'll be disappointed at the bad rendering of the polygonal driver (you) as he climbs out of the car, raising his arms in victory. 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