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TweakTown have an analysis of the recently released ATI Catalyst 8.3 drivers for Radeon graphics cards. This is a pretty good driver as far as performance increases go for Vista users. … The Windows XP driver on the other hand seems to be horrendous for X2 users with some severe power drops.
An editorial just published by bit-tech.net talks about why sequels are a good thing. We all hate sequels right? Sequels suck. Why can't those idiots who make games come up with new ideas? All we get from companies like EA are the same game again and again. That's a bad thing right? Or is it?
IGN interviewed Al Alcorn (the creator of Pong) on the birth of Atari, holographic gaming and being paid to not show up to work. Al Alcorn is one of the most important figures from the earliest days of the videogame industry. Not only was he there at the birth of Atari, alongside Nolan Bushnell, but he was the engineer who built Pong – the second coin-operated videogame machine and the game that kicked off an industry.
Register Hardware reminds us that the MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998. The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s.
Finally, Tech ARP explain how to get the NVIDIA ForceWare 174 drivers to work with GeForce 8 cards. If you try to install ForceWare 174 using a GeForce 8 series card, it won't allow you to do so, stating that no compatible graphics card were found. However, it is very simple to hack the driver to allow its installation with a GeForce 8 or older graphics card.
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