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Friday, April 28th, 2000
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1600Z: Gunship! Demo
- Microprose has released a playable demo of Gunship!. Click HERE to download from 3DFiles.com. (19 Mb)
1530Z: BCT V1.26
- Shrapnel Games has released a upgrade for Brigade Team Combat to version 1.26. Click HERE for more info and to download.
1430Z: AMD Duron™
- AMD have announced it has selected AMD Duron™ as the brand name for its new family of processors. The AMD Duron processor is derived from the AMD Athlon™ processor core and features full-speed, on-chip L2 cache memory, a 200MHz front side system bus, and enhanced 3DNow!™ technology. AMD plans to begin shipping AMD Duron processors in June.
1425Z: New IL-2 Sturmovik Screenshots
- Maddox games have posted new screen shots from their game currently in development IL-2 Sturmovik. Click HERE to view.
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Thursday, April 27th, 2000
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1728Z: Hercules Announces 3D Prophet II GTS
- Hercules has introduced its latest in graphics board: the 3D Prophet II GTS. It will be available in 32MB and 64MB versions and include TV-out. The 3D Prophet II GTS will also include a High Definition Video
Processor for DVD and HDTV.
Fly! 2K Released
- Terminal Reality have announced the release of FLY! 2K, an enhanced version of the general aviation simulation FLY!. FLY! 2K provides an up-to-date version of FLY! and a several new features including the SKY! Environment Exciter, Roger Wilco, InfoMETAR, and an expanded global elevation database. FLY! 2K is available for the PC and Macintosh computers for a suggested retail price of $29.99USD.
Dogs of War Demo
- Dogs of War is a real time action tactics game set with up to 200 individual units split between 3 opposing forces, across sprawling battlefields of up to 10 square kilometres. Click HERE to download from 3DFiles.com.
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2000
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1430Z: Aces High Patch
- HiTech Creations have released patch 3 for version 1.02. It fixes a variety of bugs including making the Panzer's Armour more resistant to machine gun fire. Click HERE to download.
1425Z: Nvidia's GeForce2 GTS
- NVIDIA today introduced the GeForce2 GTS™, the first per-pixel shading graphics processor unit (GPU) for the desktop PC market. The GeForce2 GTS delivers 1.6-billion texels (or 1.6 GigaTexels) per second and resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 x 32 at 75 MHz. Click HERE for more information.
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2000
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1624Z: Hunt for the Red Baron Demo
- 3DFiles.com has posted the Hunt for the Red Baron demo. Features 25 missions featuring aerial dogfighting, ground attack and others. There are three combat landscapes: France, Africa, and Belgium. Click HERE to download.
1535Z: AMD Slashes CPU Prices
- AMD has slashed prices of their entire line of Athlon CPUs by up to 30%. Check your local computer hardware stores for complete details.
1500Z: V5 Breakes 1 Billion Fill Rate
- 3DFX have announced that their new Voodoo5 6000 has broken the one billion per secon fill rate. The Voodoo5 6000 AGP features quad VSA-100 processors and 128 MB of graphics memory. It is the first consumer graphics product to break the one billion pixel per second fill rate barrier. The Voodoo5 6000 AGP, which renders eight fully-featured pixels per clock, will deliver between 1.33 and 1.47 gigatexels/gigapixels per second fill rate.
1450Z: Matrox Announces the G450
- The Matrox G450 AGP 2X/4X chip uses die shrink of the 0.25-micron Matrox G400 chip technology to integrate a digital flat panel transmitter, TV-out encoder, second RAMDAC and 64-bit DDR memory interface. It is a full-featured accelerator that is set to standardize DualHead Display. The G450 is geared towards business and commercial use.
1400Z: HAMS Flanker2.0 Cockpit Improvments
- Ham Technologies have made available a cockpit enhancement for Flanker 2.02 designed to take full advantage of the technology available on a TNT 2 video board. The project utilised actual images of Su-27 cockpits and custom artwork to provide an accurate and highly detailed supplement to the simulation. Click HERE for more information.
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Monday, April 24th, 2000 |
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
2015Z: EAW Petition
- A few of the better-known EAW'rs came to us here at COMBATSIM and asked if we would help promote their petition / request to MicroProse-Hasbro for more access to the game's code. We wanted to help out and so we decided to host the petition here. For more details go to this link: EAW PETITION.
1700Z: Klingon Academy Multiplayer Demo
- A prequel to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek Klingon Academy stars Christopher Plummer as General Chang and David Warner as Chancellor Gorkon. Under the tutelage of Chang, you will learn battle tactics and the code of the Klingon warrior. Click HERE to download from 3DFiles.com (106Mb - One hundred and Six Megabytes!)
1635Z: Codename Eagle Patch V1.33 Beta
- This patches merges the European and US version and throws in a bunch of new equipment and improves Multiplayer. From parachutes to Zepplins, multiplayer for Codename Eagle has been enhanced. Click HERE to download from 3DFiles.com (6.7 Mb)
1453Z: X-Plane Upgraded to Version 5.24
- Click HERE to download the full version (40Mb) and HERE for just the patch (1.3Mb) from 3DFiles.com
1330Z: Soldier of Fortune Patch V1.04 Beta
- Fixes a variety of broken items from the retail version. Click HERE to download from 3DFiles.com
1200Z: Commandos 2 Video
- Commandos by Pyro Studios have released a video of their latest edit of Commandos Version 2.0 Click HERE to view from 3DFiles.com (84Mb)
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