Monthly Archives: September 1998
V Communications – Partition Commander
There was a time when a partition meant nothing more than a piece of plasterboard separating two rooms. But where computers are concerned it means something altogether more complex. Partitions are used to divide hard drives into separate logical drives (C:, D:, E:, etc.). In addition to being a more organised solution to data storage…
Lotus – SmartSuite Millennium Edition release 9.0
With the office suite market now whittled down to just three major players – Corel, Lotus and Microsoft – some business users are making decisions based solely on their recognition of a company name. That’s not particularly clever, as the products from these three vendors differ greatly. Lotus’ latest venture is this slightly premature Millennium…
Real 3D – StarFighter PCI
If you don’t have a PC equipped with one of the relatively new AGP graphics slots, you’re probably feeling left out in the cold with the recent launch of ultra-fast 3D graphics cards. As with most revolutions in the PC industry, the older technology tends to be left behind in the manufacturers’ rush to play…
Sony – CPD-L150
The CRT is dead – long live the LCD. Well, not quite. Despite the fuss about LCD monitors over the last couple of years, they still haven’t replaced Cathode Ray Tube displays, even though the latter can trace their design ancestry right back to John Logie Baird’s first television set. LCD monitors are thinner, use…
Unitype – Global Writer 98
Fancy keeping in touch with business colleagues in Belorussia? Or pen-pals from Poland? Or perhaps school-friends from Serbia? It’s not as easy as it may seem, since the PC has never been particularly good at handling foreign alphabets. Originally designed to use just one language ‘code page’ at a time, typing in Sanskrit or Punjabi…
Sierra – Police Quest: SWAT 2
Developed with the help of an ex-police chief of Los Angeles, Police Quest: SWAT 2 is a strategy game set in the present, which makes a change. After all, why bother gallivanting off into the future when there’s plenty of death, destruction and mayhem in the tail end of the 20th century? The majority of…
Empire – Tribal Rage
Some of the recent crop of top-view strategy games are so far up their own construction by-product disposal chutes that playing them is simply no fun at all. You choose a team, dig for materials, build up an army, attack the opposition, and… either win or lose. The End. Somehow, the required amusement level just…
Tiny – Powerhouse 450 System
Ho-hum. Another month, another new processor from Intel. The chip company seems to be churning out newer, faster CPUs at a ridiculous rate of knots, but as long as there are buyers interested, who can blame it? The latest chip is a 450MHz version of the Pentium II processor, which Tiny has used as the…