Monthly Archives: March 2000
Hypernix – Gooey 2.1
Working on a similar principle to the ICQ (‘I seek you’) Internet chat program, Gooey is a small utility that allows visitors to Web sites to chat to each other, either by text or, with the appropriate tools, via video-conferencing. The user interface is pretty simple. Whenever you visit a Web site, a little pop-up…
Activision – BattleZone II: Combat Commander
There are always games that are over-hyped and over-sell, but what about the games that should have sold a bundle but somehow get ‘under-hyped’ and end up at the bottom of the bargain bins? Truly great games like the original System Shock, which just never sold that well. The reason for this is normally that…
Hi-Grade – Ultinote AS8300
The Ultinote AS8300 certainly crams a lot into a small space. Although not quite a sub-notebook, it’s nowhere near as large as a full-sized notebook either; when closed it’s a little over an inch thick. Its weight is also lower than average at 2.4kg, something which really will make a difference when lugging the unit…
Psion – V.90/GSM Travel Modem
The Psion Travel Modem is designed as an add-on for either the new Psion Revo or the Psion Series 5. It connects to either, not using a cable but via the infra-red feature built into EPOC32, Psion’s operating system. You simply plug the modem into either the phone line or a GSM mobile, and place…
Enriva – Magellan Explorer
As any Webmaster will know, whether running the world’s largest site or a ‘My Home Page’ full of naff photographs of their ugly pets, there are several well-known FTP clients (the programs used to upload HTML and other files to remote Web servers) in the shareware world, including WS-FTP and CuteFTP. Magellan Explorer is a…
PowerQuest – Drive Image Pro 3.01
The very first piece of software we ever reviewed on this site was Drive Image 2.0 (read our review here for a gentle twinge of nostalgia), but the Pro version is a different kettle of fish altogether. Aimed at systems administrators and network gurus, it’s a powerful piece of kit that allows several workstations to…
Maxdata – Belinea 10 15 30
Although LCD displays haven’t quite hit the desktop in a big way, primarily thanks to their pricing, they are becoming more popular. This 15.1-inch active matrix TFT display from Maxdata has a working screen area that is approximately the same as that of a 17-inch CRT display. It also costs approximately three times as much…
Hasbro – F1 Grand Prix Manager
Detachable steering wheels, fireproof suits, split lap times, slip-streaming and champagne wasted by the bucket-load. Welcome to the world of Formula One racing, and with Microprose’s latest heavyweight F1 sim, you can almost smell the burning rubber… or petrol as the case may be. This isn’t the developer’s first foray into the world of Grand…
Diamond – Rio 500
‘MP3′ is now claimed to be more often searched for than ‘sex’ on the Internet and the current fad for digital music shows no signs of reaching a peak. One of the main players (literally) in the MP3 boom is Diamond Multimedia’s Rio device and the latest version, the Rio 500, is better than its…
EA – The Sims
Well it had to happen eventually. We’ve had Sim City (three instalments thereof, in fact), and everything from Sim Copter to Sim Ant. The gamut has been well and truly run. There was only one thing left to do, aside from Sim Software Developer, and that was probably a little too close to the bone….