Issue 15


Issue 15	Unnatural graphics

CONTENTS
Section	Article	Page
editorial	A little gooder	6
news	The battle for Silicon Valley	8
	Your face, your interface	9
	Back I say!	10
	atomican Community Events Vituoso's campaign to become a Serf again HCB's 'Caption This'... ...also at Atomic Waste Jesus: Just a man????? PART 2	10
	What's HOT, What's NOT	10
technica obscura	Ah, F**K	12
z-access	Super, thanks for asking	14
ground zero	Fin Flummery Dan's CPU cooler comparison	16
hot box	This issue's Hot Boxes: moz's Dog Box Vlad's Vlad Box	18
	Ron's PowerZone Dumass' Box	19
x-ray	Twice the nFinity: GeForce4 vs GeForce3 vs RADEON 8500	22
head to head	Two versus one: Do two pieces of hardware necessarily perform better than one?	27
feature	Game not over: PC based emulation A list of emulation links is provided below.	30
subscription	Subscribe and be a winner! 1 yr for $49 save 30% 2yrs for $80 save 45%	34
reviews	Pay Per Play	36
	Atomic Benchmarks BAPCo MadOnion.com	38
	Gainward 600/TV Golden Sample GF4 graphics card	40
	Handspring Treo mobile phone/PDA	41
	Sony Network Walkman	42
	iCute4 3200 and 4200 PSUs	42
	Intel Celeron 1.3GHz CPU	44
	AMD 1.3GHz Duron CPU	45
	Thermaltake Volcano 7 HSF	46
	Thermaltake Crystal Orb HSF	46
	WAITEC CLIPP CD-R player	47
	WAITEC HipHop MP3/CD player	47
	Gigabyte AR64S-H RADEON 7500 graphics card	48
	Sound Blaster Extigy external sound card	50
	3D Prophet AIW 8500DV graphics card	51
	Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook	54
	ABIT SILURO Ti500 graphics card	55
	Pinnacle Studio 7 Deluxe video editor	56
	eDimensional E-D glasses	57
	KT3 Ultra-ARU motherboard	58
	Shuttle SV-24 bare-bones PC	59
	TDK velocd 321040 CD-RW	60
	Sitecom USB-Dock	60
	Altec Lansing VoicePod ABA2020 recorder	61
	Altec Lansing IntelliMic AIM4040 microphone	61
games	Shady cults	62
	Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast	64
	Serious Sam: SE	66
	Star Wars: Starfighter	68
	MotoGP 2	69
	Comanche 4	70
	Headhunter	71
	Sid Meier's SimGolf	72
	World War II Online	74
	Etherlords	76
IT Directory	Trying to find a product or service?	77
games	Star Trek: Armada II	78
	Rez	79
i/o	Hi hoe, eye o	80
merchandise	Atomic gear	83
tutorial	PSX to PC JOY: Build a PSX joypad adaptor for your PC Direct Pad Pro software, here... ... or here.	84
competition	Winny the pooh Win a Wiatec HipHop MP3/CD player, Gigabyte RADEON 7500, autograp[hed Tony Hawk 3 or a Dilithium AL3	87
post apocalypse	The page o' reader wisdom POTM	88
fallout	PC jokes	98

Newcastle Gamers League postpones LAN event after warning from BSAA.
BSAA LAN event
Guidelines

GeForce4 MX card supports Vertex and Pixel Shading through driver software rather than hardware. See page 22.

Blizzard forces shut down of Bnetd.

Terminator: Dawn of Fate FPS, prequel to the Terminator movie in development for Xbox and PS2.

Toshiba drops floppy disk drives from its laptop computers.


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Link me - extended article link list
'Game not over' - Emulation Links
MAME Official Homepage	www.mame.net
Flyers, Cabinets, Icons, Screenshots	www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa
	www.arcadeflyers.com
	crashtest.retrogames.com
	www.klov.com
Marquees	emam.mameworld.net
Emuloader Homepage - brilliant MAME frontend.	www.mameworld.net/emuloader
MAMEWORLD - all you need to know. Link heaven.	www.mameworld.net
RomCenter - the best MAME ROM manager.	www.romcenter.com
The Good Tools - the best console ROM managers.	www.vg-network.com/goodtools.phtml
Building Your Own Arcade Controls	www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm
	www.mameworld.net/emuadvice/keyhack2.html
	www.oscarcontrols.com
Converting Console Control Pods	snespad.emulationworld.com/welcome.html
Converting Console Control Pods	www.alltechbox.com/pc/pc006_pg01_eng.php3
Control Panels	www.x-arcade.com
	home.iprimus.com.au/ozstick
	hanaho.com/products/HotRodJoystick
	www.slikstick.com
Emulation Sites	www.classicgaming.com
	www.retrogames.com
	www.emuunlim.com
	www.vg-network.com
	www.arcadeathome.com
	www.zophar.net
	linuxemu.retrofaction.com
Pinball Emulators	www.pinmame.com
Pinball Emulators	www.randydavis.com/vp
Arcade Emulators	www.impactemu.com
	www.rainemu.com
	kawaks.retrogames.com
	kingkof.tripod.com/snk_history
	www.namco.com/usa_index.html


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