Issue 18


Issue 18	DOOM 3, E3 & 3D	July 02

CONTENTS
Section	Article	Page
editorial	3D sunrise	6
news	Graphics dry spell comes to an end	8
	Napster survives. Again.	9
	Optus caps the tap	10
	Atomican Hulkster's Ode to Atomicans	10
	What's HOT, What's NOT	10
technica obscura	Our taste for Spiced Ham	12
z-access	See the light	14
ground zero	A new way to be wrong	16
hot box	Hot Box Archive 18: Katana's Flamebox Sonictail's ShitBox	18
	spamzOr's b3@5+ Bastard Child's Furry Muff	19
social	Atomic M337 V2.0	20
scanner	E3 2002: And then there were games Previews of -	23
	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell	24
	Far Cry	24
	Doom III	24
	Metroid Prime	25
	SOCOM	25
	The Getaway	25
	Combat Flight Sim 3	26
	Unreal Tournament 2003	26
	Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided	26
	Age of Mythology	28
	Lock-On	28
	StarFox Adventures	28
	World of Warcraft	28
	PlanetSide	28
	Command & Conquer Generals	28
	Deus Ex 2	29
	FreeLancer	29
	Blinx	29
	Time Splitters II	29
	Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders	29
	LOTR Two Towers	29
x-ray	The Guts of the GameCube Nintendo Australia Nintendo's GameCube site UK Games Video GameCube FAQ GameCube options from Lik Sang Jaycar Electronics (for Star Hex bit)	30
head to head	MP3 vs WMA vs OGG WinAmp LAME Media Player Ogg Vorbis Shorten Flac	34
feature	533 times the fun: Pentium 4 533MHz FSB motherboards	38
	Matrox Reloaded: The Parhelia-512 GPU	42
reviews	id and ergo	52
	Atomic Benchmarks BAPCo MadOnion.com	50
	Coolermaster IHC-L71 Silent Heat Pipe	56
	Thermaltake P4 Dragon	56
	Eizo FlexScan L685 LCD monitor	57
	Hydraulic - SF860B ATX Case	57
	LITEON LXR-24101A CD-RW	58
	Thermalright AX7 HSF	58
	Papst Fans	59
	X-Micro Impact Ti4200 64MB graphics card	60
	Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz CPU	62
	Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer optical mouse	64
	Sunpower SPW-6250P1 PSU	64
	Athlon XP 2200+ CPU	66
	ABIT IT7 motherboard	67
games	Plenty of Gaming Goodness	68
	Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader	71
	V8 Challenge	72
	Might and Magic IX	74
	Army Men RTS	76
	Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix	77
	Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror	78
	Spider-man	79
subscription	Sub Atomic: Win one of two sets of BEFW11S4 Wireless AP DSL with router	80
i/o	Boom crash soap opera Gigabyte Socket A motherboard manuals Asus BIOS Downloads nVidia Drivers	82
merchandise	Atomic gear	85
tutorial	The Heavy Water Project: Phase 2 of 4 Lian Li case & DigiDoc 5 from Anyware Computer Accessories Power Supply from AusPC Market SilverStorm Radiator from Silverprop Cold cathodes, LaserLEDs, grills, fans etc from PC Case Gear Dan's Data	86
	Noise elimination	92
competition	Free bees Win a Duron 1.3, Baybus kit, mStation Car Jukebox or Tactical Ops game	94
post apocalypse	Letters entertain you POTM: C++ Please Help	96
fallout	Chemical agents	106

Google Labs, a place where Google engineers can show off their pet projects.

Valve Software plans to port Counter-Strike to the Xbox for Microsoft's 'Xbox Live' online gaming service.

Sony's latest audio CD protection, Key2Audio, bypassed using a marker pen...

Ferraro develops prototype peripheral to allow USB mouse and Claw to be used with Xbox.

Severe drought in Taiwan threatens PCB manufacturing.

Optical disk format capable of 100GB and compatible with existing CD-ROM and DVD invented by National Taiwan University.


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