Een nieuwe Quake, en een nieuwe Tombraider, dus ook maar een nieuwe Carmageddon...

Details have emerged from UK-based SCi regarding the fall sequel to their controversial racing title, Carmageddon. Titled Death Race 2000, the game, which has been in development for almost two years, features a next-generation engine the company claims can achieve twice the framerate as the original on the same hardware. Additionally, the offering has been developed with a stronger focus on immersive environments and an even higher degree of stomach-churning humor. “The time has come for the victims to get their revenge after three long years of suffering at the hands, or should we say the bumpers, of Max and his psychotic co-drivers,” SCi public relations manager Sam Forrest wrote in a press release. Death Race 2000 is also the first in the series to be designed from the ground up for online competition, and features unique deathmatch arenas and play modes.

Humor?!?

Via SysOpt.com kwam ik op deze wazige site, waar de Pentium III 600 te koop wordt aangeboden.

BOXED PIII P3 600MHZ 512 Kb CACHE SECC2 SLT1 100MHZ FSB Part #: BX80525U600512E 991438 $700.90

Zal in Nederland wel weer 2400 ballen gaan kosten...

Op SharkyExtreme vond ik dit bericht dat Hyundai nog binnenkort 166 Mhz DDR-SDRAM zal introduceren.

From a system bandwidth standpoint, a 128-bit I/O bus, which is main stream on today's add-on graphics cards, the graphics system designer will find a significant improvement by implementing the new 166MHz DDR parts. Systems today using graphics SDRAM provide bandwidths of only 2.7 to 3.2 gigabytes per second (GB/sec.). But with 166MHz DDR SDRAMs, the graphics system engineer can achieve a bandwidth of 5.3 GB/sec., in other words, double the bandwidth performance.``

Door de verdubbeling van de bandbreedte kan vooral op grafisch gebied een flinke prestatiewinst worden geboekt.

Nu nog een moederbord dat 166 Mhz bus ondersteund

Sinds gisteren draai ik de Win2k RC1 beta, wat bij mij automatisch een verhoogde interesse in de Aureal Vortex II WDM driver deed ontstaan. Die driver is er namelijk nog niet, waardoor ik en mijn blije Vortex II lotgenoten geen geluid krijgen onder Windows 2000. Bij 3D Soundsurge kwam ik wat info tegen over een WDM driver (en een of andere wazige equalizer registry hack):

I checked out the Ask Aureal section on Aureal's website and noticed 3 interesting answers. The first was that Vortex drivers"will be part of the RC2 release CD that is planned for 8/25" and they may also be available on MS website before that. The second is that the equalizer is always set to bypass after a reboot. This will be fixed in the 2035 drivers but if you can't wait Aureal gave the following tip

In the meantime, if you are very confident using the Windows Registry you can use regedit to workaround this issue. This is for advanced users ONLY.

In the registry, under HKEY_Local_Machine-Software-Aureal-Vortex-AU8830-Equalizer locate the EqBypass key. Change the value from 1 to 0 and reboot your machine.

The third Q&A, more than a week old, that caught my eye was the fact that Aureal's new speakers will include a headphone jack on one of the satellites. Aureal also revealed that there will be very advanced mixer controls accessible via the control panel on the speakers.