Monthly Archives: December 1998
GT Interactive – Duke Nukem: Time to Kill
This is not the first Duke Nukem game for the PlayStation. Duke actually started life on the PC in 1995. A rough, no compromise action type of bloke, he was about as un-PC as you could get. In between shooting aliens, he’d shout “Come get some” or “You’re an inspiration for birth control”, occasionally watching…
Attica – OS Interactive Atlas of GB
Unlike many other mapping programs available for the PC, this piece of software is not a route-planner. Instead, the Interactive Atlas of Great Britain contains digitised map information from Ordnance Survey, detailing over 45,000 places in the UK. The entire country is covered at 1:250,000 scale detail, while selected sections are also shown at 1:50,000…
Ingenious Solutions – WristGliders
This has to be one of the weirdest computer-related products on the market. Available either singly (for intensive mouse users) or in pairs (for frantic typists), the WristGlider is a small cushioned pad with a fabric or plastic base that allows it to glide over a desktop relatively easily. Intended for use by people susceptible…
Vladimir Djuric – RedBox
RedBox is, in essence, a personal information manager. It incorporates a Calendar, To Do list, Planner, Address book, Notepad, Anniversary reminder and report-writer, all packaged into a compact little interface that even a monkey could use with relatively little training. As is usually the case with such packages, RedBox allows you to create meetings and…
Fujitsu – Intecra P2
Had enough of that clunky great grey box sitting on your desktop? Want to replace it with something smaller, svelter and infinitely more aesthetically interesting? Judging by the success of the Apple iMac, so do lots of people, and now the computer-in-a-box idea is coming to the land of the PC. Companies such as Brother…
Interactive Magic – Knights and Merchants
The title is a bit of a give-away. This strategy game is set some time around 1200AD, when Anglo-Saxons were still beating each other over the head with lumps of wood. Unfortunately, the game itself is rather more subtle than that, although combat does feature highly. Initially, however, Knights and Merchants resembles games such as…
Eidos – Tomb Raider III
“Tits”. There, I’ve said it. Now I don’t have to beat around the bush with phrases such as ‘Her two most distinct assets’ or ‘Her pneumatic appeal’. Because Lara Croft is back. Again. As if two Tomb Raider action adventure games were not enough, part three reintroduces us to the most lethal young lady ever…
Sareen – OfficeTalk 98
While workgroup messaging and database solutions such as Lotus Notes are very useful tools for larger corporations, smaller companies can rarely justify the cost of such products, since they don’t need all the advanced functionality provided. OfficeTalk 98 is aimed at smaller companies, primarily those with between 50 and 500 users. Once installed, OfficeTalk 98…