Monthly Archives: September 2000
Tiny – Entertainment Performance
Tiny’s Entertainment Performance system offers a lot for not too great an outlay. The system is built around an 800MHz Pentium III processor with 128MB of fast 133MHz memory and a substantial 28.6GB hard drive. In the front panel is a combo DVD/CD-RW drive which helps keep most of your record and playback options open,…
Visioneer – OneTouch 8100
Aesthetically, the 8100 OneTouch is more pleasing than most scanners, and more importantly it’s pretty compact so it won’t take up too much space on your desk. As with most scanners these days, it offers a USB port connection, although a parallel port option is also here for those with older PCs. It also boasts…
Activision – Vampire: The Masquerade
Evil, I tell you, they’re evil! No, not the Gas Board but a far more ancient evil. An evil that has stalked the land since the very first flickerings of life on this planet. An evil that is… the Inland Revenue. Oh alright it’s the vampires. Fangtastic. Our sharp-toothed friends are taking over the world…
BURN-proof CD-R/RW drives group test
As you can see, this drive is a bit more expensive than the Plextor unit, and the main reason for this is the type of interface used. Where the Plextor uses IDE, this Mirai unit has a SCSI connector at the rear, which is more suitable for use in professional systems. Previously, SCSI was the…
Lernout & Hauspie – Power Translator Pro 7.0
The latest version of Lernout & Hauspie’s Power Translator Pro translates foreign letters, reports, e-mail and Web pages into English. Version 7.0 of the software supports six of the world’s most widely-used languages including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Japanese and has significantly come down in price compared with previous versions. Aimed at…
FastTrak – eJay MP3 Station Plus
When you buy an MP3 player, you usually get MP3 software for your PC with it. Often, though, there are shortcomings with this software, like having to register it to keep using it – Diamond’s Rio suffers from this. You can, though, buy separate MP3 software, and eJay’s MP3 Station Plus offers a lot for…
Hasbro/Microprose – Grand Prix 3
It’s been a long wait of nearly four years since Geoff Crammond’s remarkable Grand Prix 2 was released. Widely regarded as, far and away, the best Formula One racing simulation on any platform, GP2′s legions of fans will be expecting much from GP3. Incidentally, anyone not familiar with Geoff Crammond’s work and expecting a PlayStation-style…
Absolute – Outrageous SoundMaster MP3
MP3 players continue to grow in popularity but are still held back by two things; price and memory capacity. Absolute aims to address the first of these problems with the introduction of its Outrageous SoundMaster. It has taken the bright step of splitting the two functions of an MP3 unit, namely to record music onto…
Guillemot – 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB
If a graphics card were to be judged by appearances alone, the 3D Prophet II would be instantly idolised. It’s one cool looking card, from the subtle hue of the blue circuit board, to the bright electric blue heat sinks on the memory chips. Yes, heat sinks on the memory chips, we kid ye not,…
eSoft – Team Internet 100
If you have a small to medium-sized local area network and you want to connect your users to the Internet, there are now plenty of simple and inexpensive solutions for enabling Web browsing or managing e-mail. However, as the availability of unmetered Internet access spreads (slowly) across the country, later to be followed by the…