Monthly Archives: October 2002
Abit – Siluro Ti4200 OTES
Abit has released another graphics card in its Siluro range, but the Siluro Ti4200 OTES is out of the ordinary. The clue is that OTES suffix, which stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System. Basically, Abit has taken a notebook processor cooling solution and stuck it on an Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics chip, and then applied…
PowerQuest – PartitionMagic 8.0
It’s almost a year since we last reviewed PartitionMagic, so it’s almost inevitable that a new version should arrive. This one has a few tweaks and improvements over the previous version, but whether that makes it a necessary upgrade is open to debate. So, let the debate begin. PartitionMagic is a tool for restructuring the…
Curious Labs – Poser 5
More and more designers are turning to 3D tools to enhance their designs and express their creativity, and this is where Poser comes in. Described by Curious Labs as ‘The Ultimate 3D character Solution’, Poser 5 is a package for modelling 3D ‘mannequins’, although that’s a very simplistic way of looking at it. Poser has…
UbiSoft – Duke Nukem Manhattan Project
While the wait for Duke Nukem Forever appears to be just that – forever – the king of PC-based blasting and babe-rescuing action has taken a pit stop to star in his very own platform game. Yes, a platformer, not something we see much of on the PC these days. As usual it involves a…
Acclaim – Burnout 2: Point of Impact
We loved Gran Turismo and all its little Gran Turismo offspring, but there occasionally came a point in the evening, usually after the fifth pint, when it all turned silly and people started driving the wrong way around the track, crashing into oncoming cars and causing carnage. Or attempting to cause carnage, because it was…
Steganos – Security Suite 4
We reviewed a (much) earlier version of Steganos here. Although the original core idea – the ability to hide documents and other sensitive information inside other files – has been retained, many new features are available in the Security Suite that were not present in the earlier product. In fact, Steganos Security Suite 4 is…
Armari – XPC 2530
The concept of the small format PC has been around for quite a while, but until recently they were a mis-match of notebook and desktop technologies, with performance that lagged behind even modestly powered notebooks. Shuttle has been one of the very few companies to keep faith with the concept, and the result is the…
Pentaware – PentaZip
Software compression tools have been around for donkeys’ years, going back to the early PKWare ARC files, and even earlier on some systems, before the ZIP format was widely accepted ourside the Unix world (where TAR-GZip is the equivalent). Most Windows users will be familiar with WinZip, although our preferred ZIP program is ZipMagic, because…
CDV – Sudden Strike 2
“Suddenly… I’m not half the man I used to be… A hand grenade went off right next to me… Oh I believe, in yesterday.” War is, of course, something that’s much better simulated than actually partaken of – a fact of which certain world leaders could do with taking heed. It’d no doubt be a…