Monthly Archives: March 2001
Hauppauge – WinTV USB
One of a range of video digitiser products from Hauppauge, the WinTV USB does just what it says on the box; it allows you to watch TV on your Windows PC courtesy of a simple USB connection. It supports 125 channels from cable TV or standard antenna, and will also accept video from VCR or…
Activision – Call to Power 2
The Civilization series of games is one of the most famous ever to grace the PC. Engineered by that strategy genius Sid Meier, it has gone through a few incarnations. When he left, it switched its name to Call to Power, still keeping the same core gameplay. If you’re not familiar with how Civilization works,…
Corel – CorelDRAW 10
At the beginning of the 80′s there was a fantasy piece in a magazine on computing life at the turn of the century. One of the imagined events was the release of CorelDRAW 10. How we all laughed, since we were only on CorelDRAW 2 at the time. It’s now 2001 and CorelDRAW 10 has…
Top-spec consumer PCs group test
If your idea of a top-spec PC is a complete package, rather than just the PC itself, you should look seriously at this Time offering. Starting with a typical tower-cased PC based on a 1.1GHz Athlon processor and featuring 256MB of memory, a hefty 41GB hard drive and DVD and CD-RW drives, it also includes…
Eidos – Tomb Raider Chronicles
Tomb Raider Chronicles sees Lara-and-her-ample-proportions Croft return in the fifth adventure in the Tomb Raider series. Despite the fact that we are now four years on from the first instalment of the game, the format hasn’t changed, and unfortunately it’s still struggling with the same old problems. Gameplay tends to be repetitive and static and…
CTX – EX710F
First impressions of this new 17-inch CRT display from CTX are good. The actual case design isn’t particularly trendy or thrilling, but that doesn’t matter. What’s more important is the tube itself and the unit’s build quality. The former we’ll get to later, but the latter is certainly impressive; the entire unit feels very solid,…
Fox Interactive – No One Lives Forever
It is indeed true that no one lives forever, unless you happen to be a mad Scot descended from the Clan McCloud of McSomewhere-or-other. And even then if you have your head sliced off you’re in the schtuck. And the title is pretty apt for this first person 3D shooter which is crafted in the…
Compaq – Deskpro Workstation 300
There is a market for systems that offer workstation power at a reasonable cost, without relying on a multi-processor platform. Compaq’s new Deskpro Workstation 300 is aimed directly at this market. Powered by a 1.4GHz Pentium 4 chip, and using the equally new Intel 850 chipset and 400MHz front-side bus, the Workstation 300 has certainly…
Macromedia – Dreamweaver 4
Macromedia Dreamweaver has a well-deserved reputation for being a capable Web design package, and contains support for both graphical design and direct coding of HTML. It also has some site management features and integration with sister packages Flash and Fireworks for Web graphics work. Version 4 brings some welcome enhancements including some relief from the…
Net2Phone – Yap Internet Phone
Yap stands for ‘your alternative phone’. It’s a complete package to get your PC going with Net2Phone’s Internet phone service. The lure is discounted and even free long distance and international phone calls. You can call conventional phone numbers at a discount, or other Net2Phone users’ PCs for free. Sounds too good to be true?…