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2:46 PM
StarCraft not in manufacturing yet...
Blizzard denied reports that the game had gone to manufacturing yet,
although they did say it would be within a few days. Usually I trust Next Gen on
these things, but oh well. A couple of days more won't hurt anybody.
MPEG-4 Audio
I'm still working on this project. I think I fixed a bug that was
causing the AAC decoder to crash, but stereo output sounds like hell. Actually, they
all sound like hell. I wish I could get a solid reference bitstream so I could
determine whether the problem is the encoder or the decoder.
8:43 PM
NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 slated for June
Although the focus of the article is the new Security Configuration Editor
that will be included in SP4, we do also get some info on a release date...late June.
Looking at all the hotfixes that are out for SP3 right now, it would be nice if we
could get it a little sooner.
Infoworld's
story
1:00 PM
New instructions in Deschutes
Apparently Intel has included two new instructions in the Deschutes line
of Pentium II's. The new instructions, FXSAVE and FXRSTOR, are used to quickly save
and restore the state of the floating-point registers. Supposedly this will come in
handy for multiple threads of execution where a lot of context-switching is going on.
EE Times' story
10:20 PM
StarCraft gold!
According to
Next Generation, StarCraft has entered production. Looks like we'll be seeing
this one real soon! Woohoo!
2:36 PM
Buying the Millennium II Rainbow Runner
NECX Direct appears to have them in
stock...limited quantity, it says. If you want one, you know where to get it.
4:16 PM
Hercules Thriller 3D review up
Read all about it here.
If you are having good experiences with this card, please let me know so I can try
to resolve some of the outstanding issues with the card that I am having.
3:09 PM
Rainbow Runner for the Millennium II
Apparently CDW had some in stock, but
they went REALLY fast. Nevertheless, they are out and it's definitely confirmed.
1:41 PM
Quake 2 v3.13 and CTF 1.01 released
Yup. Go get it.
Full patch - q2_313.exe
Patch from 3.12 to 3.13 - q2_312to313.exe
CTF patch - q2ctf101.zip
12:48 PM
Verbatim DataLife Plus CD-R's
We just got a shipment of these in on Monday and after using a few, I'm
totally impressed. I've tried a couple of discs and they are working damn near
perfectly on everything I've tried, including my CD player and even my PlayStation, whose
drive I thought was broken! Highly recommended. I ordered our batch from Media Source.
1:15 AM
Gran Turismo
Have you seen this game? The cars are awesome looking and the
physics of the cars is the most realistic I've ever seen in a console driving game...or a
computer game, for that manner. I mean, the suspension of the cars actually reacts
when you hit bumps or take hard turns. Not only that, reflection mapping moves along
the surface of the cars, which creates a really cool and realistic effect. I'll
write more about the game later...still playing around with it. There are so
many options that it's just crazy.
3:06 PM
Riva 128 ZX
nVidia has announced a new revision of their popular Riva 128 chipset, the
Riva 128 ZX. The most important changes seem to be slightly faster speed, AGP 2X
support and the ability to address up to 16MB (8MB framebuffer, 8MB texture).
http://www.rivazone.com/pressreleases/feb-23-1.html
Go buy that Voodoo 2!
Creative Labs' Voodoo 2 cards are popping up in Electronics Boutique's all
over the place. Some people even got them on Saturday! Wonder if they are
worth the bucks?
3:19 AM
New name, new logo!
The new logo is up, courtesy of Tom Purves! Thanks for all the great
submissions, guys....I'm glad to know that there are so many people out there who
appreciate this site enough to make a contribution!
The Thriller 3D review should be up shortly, by the way.
3:28 PM
Sample shots from the Konica Q-Mini
If you want to see some sample shots I made, check out http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~rkuo/pics.html.
Pretty good quality, don't you think? The first batch was taken in fine
quality, the second in normal. Not really much of a difference, to tell you the
truth.
Note: I'm not the big guy. :-)
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