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Issue 26 GET YOUR XBOX ONLINE NOW! March 03
CONTENTS
Section Article Page
editorial Death of the joystick 6
news artomic 8
  #atomicmpc: chatty chatty bangbang 8
  Fallout 2003 10
  Atomican 10
  What's HOT, What's NOT 10
technica
obscura		 On the Discovery channel
  Eris S. Raymond's Jargon File 		12
z-access Raptor your laughing gear around this 14
ground zero IMAX computing 16
hot box atomic's Hot Box page:
Brian's Big Woody
Dragan Jurisic's Dragon		 18
  JB's ShadowCube
Tyrant 42's AT power tower		 19
gearbox     Bluetooth USB Dongle
Vantec Nexus Multi-Func panel
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Notepad Ice Pad 2000
Top Mount Window Kit
Knightrider LED Scanner
UV Reactive 80mm Fan
Dual Cold Cathode UV Kit		 20

scanner

 Previews of forthcoming games 22

For PCFor Xbox

 Hidden and Dangerous 2 22

For PCFor PlayStation 2For Xbox

 Indiana Jones and The Emperor's Tomb 23
For Xbox

Halo 2: Combat Evolved

 24
x-ray

Sweet Sounding Signals: The process of sound production
  THX
  Creative's EAX

26
head to head Pixels and Vertices, Take Your Marks: 3DMark03 30
 

3D Markin' with Tero and Patric

 34
feature

Atomic V2: Got features?

 38
 

Xbox Live & Kickin'
  Xbox Live Starter Kit from Burn
  Aussie Xbox forums

 41
reviews THE PH34R 44
  Atomic Benchmarks
  BAPCo
  Unreal Tournament 2003 from HardOCP
  MadOnion.com
  SiSoftware		 46

 

 Framerate: New graphics cards and CPUs
  Sapphire RADEON 9700
  Gigabyte Maya II R9500 Pro
  Albatron Ti4800 SE
  ABIT Siluro GF4 MX-8X
  Leadtek A130 DDR-TH		 48

Hot product

 Thermaltake Aquarius II liquid cooling kit 50

 

 Innovatek AMD Complete Water Cooling Bundle 51

Hot product

 Asetek Vapochill PE 52

Hot product

 Intel C1 Pentium 4 and 2GHz Celeron 54

 

 Essential Reality P5 Glove 56

  

Creative Cambridge Megaworks THX 5.1 550 speakers 56

Hot product

 Shuttle XPC SN41G2 barebones system 58
  Gigabyte SINXP1394 motherboard 60
games Xbox Live - The Techie Bits. 62
For Game Cube Metroid Prime 64
For PC Impossible Creatures 66
For Xbox Unreal Championship 67
For PC Unreal II - The Awakening 68
Hot productFor PC SimCity 4 69

For Xbox

 Shenmue II 70
back issues Collect 'em all 71
i/o My friends call me Sweary
  Yamaha's DiscT@2
  Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller information
  IRQ-stacking behaviour in Win2000 and WinXP		 72
Phr33x
tw33x		 Make it fastery, Igor! Fastery! 75
tutorial Modjitsu: See-through PSU 76
  Modjitsu: Fitting an LCD Display
  Matrix Orbital displays
  LCDC interface program		 78
  The Aural Decipher part 1
 

 

 82
  Search for a Super Model part 3 86
subscription Sub-stantial $2,000 sub-atomic prizeage 92
competition Winnables 94
post
apocalypse		 Write Mode Enabled
  POTM: Atomican Zodiac traits		 104
fallout The sting of flashing 106
Cover of Issue 26 Short Circuits
VIA pushes new 24-bit sound standard to replace AC'97.
Having acquired Rare, Microsoft sets its sights on Vivendi.
SiS unveils 746FX chipset.
Carpal tunnel syndrome, RSI, tennis elbow or thrombosis?
US Music lobby pushing to amend Australian Copyright Act in line with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Downloading copyright material worth more than US$1,000 risks a year in prison.
 

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