Monthly Archives: January 2002
Soltek – SL-75DRV4 Purple Ray
A growing trend among custom PC case-makers is the installation of windows in the side panels to highlight the internal components. In fact at least one manufacturer makes a totally see-through case. As if to pander to this small band of case-makers, Soltek has given the new SL-75DRV4 motherboard, designed for Athlon processors, the name…
Montparnasse Multimedia – Secrets of the Universe
I wonder how many people have Stephen Hawking’s “A brief history of time” on their bookshelves, unopened and gathering dust. It seemed like a good idea at the time; an accessible, easy to read book about the most complicated problems that have dogged physicists over the centuries. Of course, what’s accessible and easy to read…
Xerox – Tektronix Phaser 860 DP
Colour inkjet printers are occasionally to be found in the office – we’ve reviewed some here before – but for heavy duty workgroup printing, it’s hard to beat a colour laser printer such as this one. They don’t come cheap, but the performance they offer is as yet unmatched by any other technology. This particular…
Palmtops/PDAs group test
Personal digital assistants (PDAs, or palmtops if you prefer) have come of age. Whatever the operating system they use, these gadgets are now as popular with consumers as they are with the business community. So we’ve decided to take another look (you can read our last round-up here) at these pocket-sized computers. Microsoft’s recently launched…
DarkBasic – 3D GameMaker
Have you ever played a computer game and thought “This is rubbish. I could do much better than this (if I could program, draw, write music, etc.)”? So have we, but somehow we’ve never really had the chance. Not since the days of the BBC Micro, anyway. Today’s games are so vast that you need…
Konami – Pro Evolution Soccer
It’s been a while coming, but Pro Evolution Soccer has recently made it onto UK PlayStation 2 machines. Was it worth the wait? The game’s sold by the bucketload in Japan (under the somewhat cumbersome title of “World Soccer Winning Eleven 5″), but that doesn’t mean it’ll translate well to these shores. To start with,…
Fo2PiX – PhotoArtMaster
The marketing strapline for this product is “Know any picture-framers? They’re going to be busy”. Umm… no, they’re not. Not from what we’ve seen, anyway. PhotoArtMaster is a supposedly simple tool designed to take your scanned or digital photos and produce something artistic, something that you’d be happy to see hanging on your wall. And…
Elonex – WebRider Pro
Elonex’s new XP 1800+ machine is aimed at the business sector. From the LCD monitor and network adapter to the no-frills component list, AMD’s new power plant is being put to practical rather than entertainment use. Only the graphics card seems a little over the top. The case that Elonex has chosen for its XP…
Mountain Solutions – ABSplus
You may recognise ‘ABS’ as a safety device for your car, but according to Mountain Solutions, it’s also a safety product for your notebook PC. ABS, in Mountain Solutions parlance, means Automatic Backup System. The company markets a range of portable external storage devices that support ABS and in this review we look at ABSplus,…
Electronic Arts – FIFA 2002
Now that England has qualified for the World Cup, we can boldly move on to the next version of FIFA and try to replay the glory (well, it was a pretty glorious recovery under King Sven anyway). As opposed to crying into our lager and trying to rewrite the past with FIFA 2002′s inevitable World…