Monthly Archives: January 2000
Activision – Quake III Arena
Whoever would have thought that a rather crude, non-politically-correct 3D shooter where you ran around a castle exterminating Nazis would foster such a long and distinguished line of grandchildren. As the Bible would put it, Wolfenstein begat Doom, which begat Doom II, and that begat Quake, whom begat Quake II, which finally begat Quake III…
Stephen Turner – Analog 4.01
IT Reviews has more than 23,000 unique readers every month. How do we know this? Because all Web servers have the ability to record logs of their activities. These logs can include the date, time, file requested, http code, action request, IP of the requesting system, the type of file sent, the size of the…
BBC Worldwide – Fast Show Comedy Pack
“Ain’t CD-ROMs brilliant!?”, I guess, should be the quote on the front of the box of this multimedia package celebrating one of the biggest modern hit comedy shows the BBC has had. And from the moment you boot up the program, and the intro screen shows Jesse, the fashionable yokel, proclaiming his love for Dolce…
Britannica – Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 2000 / DVD 2000
Remember the days when encyclopaedia salesmen would knock at the door, weighed down with massive tomes of knowledge? No, neither do I, but apparently it used to happen. Then along came CD, and those poor souls had to move into other areas of entrepreneurship. Fortunate, really, as the printed version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is…
Mindscape – Flanker 2
Great philosophical questions of our time number 216 – what is a Flanker that is flying solo? Surely not a flanker, as it is neither flanking nor being flanked by anything. It must be a constant dichotomy for the pilots of these planes: “Ivan, come on we’ve got to scramble!!”“Sorry, too much potato-juice last night,…
Evergreen/AMD – Spectra 400
We reviewed an earlier version of the Spectra upgrade processor here, and a quick browse through that review should give you an idea of what this new one’s all about. Basically, if you have an old Pentium-powered PC, you can upgrade to the equivalent of a 400MHz AMD K6-2 processor. Simple? Well, yes it is,…
Elsa – Erazor III Pro 3D
Two versions of Elsa’s Erazor III Pro 3D graphics card are available; one with video in and out capabilities and one without. We’ve reviewed the former, though it ought to be noted that the latter is £50 cheaper. Both have 32MB of SDRAM, meaning they can cope with the most demanding screen modes. They are…
Kryotech – Super-G
If you still can’t get enough speed out of your PC, or want to be the first on your street with a 1GHz machine, you need look no further than Kryotech’s Super-G. This is a PC based on AMD’s 700MHz Athlon processor, over-clocked to the magic Gigahertz mark. This level of over-clocking would normally be…
NewSoft – Presto! OCR Pro 4.0
OCR, or optical character recognition, is one of life’s disappointments. Like unwrapping a solid, heavy Christmas present and finding eight pairs of socks inside, using OCR with the expectation that what was printed on the paper will actually appear in perfect form on your PC screen usually results in amazement, followed swiftly by annoyance. This…
DVD-RAM drives group test
Creative has been around the sound and multimedia world for many years and, with the SoundBlaster range, established the industry standard for sound cards. Creative was amongst the first to introduce CDROM drives to the PC and the original SoundBlaster Pro had a separate connector for a CD drive. The Creative 1220S is the company’s…