First off, before I get to anything, I have always wanted to mention that I thought of the title for this whole column. In fact, it wasn’t even me, it was me ranting about a line from a children’s computer animated series. In said series, a large asparagus plugs in his Macintosh, and in response [...]

A preview of Windows ME, from Microsoft.

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I remember when I first cared about modems.  It was back in the days of the late Pentium, when 33.6Kbps was in it’s prime.  It’s when USR came out with X2 technology, which rose modem receive speeds to 56K (The FCC limited speeds to 53.3K), but still held send speeds down to 33.6Kbps.  A competing [...]

Ever since the Athlon was introduced, AMD and Intel have been fighting for the top spot in speed.  They have battled back and forth, from 600MHz, to 700MHz, 900MHz, and now finally, 1GHz (1000MHz.)  Months after the GHz point was reached in the x86 market, we’re still hardly seeing any actual 1GHz Retail, or OEM [...]

AMD Recently announced two new chips to the retail world.  The first, and most important, being the AMD Athlon Processor with the Thunderbird core.  It’s the same as the old K75 core Athlon Processors, but it’s moved the L2 Cache onto the processor die, meaning it is full speed.  It also reduced the size of [...]

Well, in lieu of Matt’s senses, I have written the ever-glorious Transistorized and Tormented article for the week. Unfortunately, I have no greater an idea for a topic than he had for me. This leaves for me…Sealand. Long ago I decided that if I had no clue about what I would write on, and I [...]

It took the life of the computer industry in order to finally get the desktop CPU up to 1GHz.  As we sit here today, and even before the 1GHz CPUs were announced, companies already have plans for 1.5GHz chips and beyond.  Now, Intel is making speed upgrades in 100Mhz (0.1GHz) increments.  I remember back in [...]

Warning, For Mature Audiences Only Soldier of Fortune is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated game in recent history. Media reports of excessive gore, and realistic violence had the public screaming for a demo, and it has finally arrived. Weighing in at 95.1 megs, the demo may take a while to download, but it is worth [...]

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Vampires Re-vamped Just for the record, let me be the first in a long line to admit that I am not the greatest fan of console port games, which is exactly what Soul Reaver is. Call me nitpicky but console game ports always seem to crossover into the PC platform with a lot left to [...]

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Cheap Thrills Let’s face it, not all of us can afford to spend upwards of $100 on a good flight stick. But we still want to play the games, and not have to worry about our joystick crapping out. Most cheap sticks are uncomfortable, have poor button placement, and generally don’t feel solid. The Thrustmaster [...]

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