Issue 37


Issue 37	Building a Home Digital Video Studio	February 04

CONTENTS
Section	Article	Page
editorial	Christmas ghosts	06
cd	CD No. 8 - Total Audio/Visual Suite	09
news	The best of 2003 Atomic Reader Awards	11
	AusEGamer: AGDC Part 2	12
	What's Hot, What's Not	12
	Atomican Who was the school nerd? Photo of yourself reading Atomic in a weird location Santa Hats Birrarung Marr BBQ	12
	POTM 37: How did we survive?	12
ground zero	Reality Plus! Professor Steve Mann Human PacMan	14
technica obscura	Is binary is good? Captive Linuxant	16
z-access	What goes around...	18
gearbox	Sunbeam PSU mod kit USB massage ball 2FAN Mega Memory Watch 128MB Super-Flower SF-470W triple fan PSU Flexiglow FX Game Pad Gigabyte GO-WO404A DVD-Dual Altec Lansing inMotion iPod speakers Remote control plane, helicopter, submarine and stunt car	20
hotbox	Atomic's hot box page Azz's The Beast Within Peter's Lizi	22
	Mif's Vampire Ascension Box XGhost's Xtreme PC	23
x-ray	CD-ROM Mass Production	24
head to head	CATALYST vs Omega drivers Driver Heaven Omega Corner	27
feature	Building a home digital video studio VideoMan AVID FreeDV MainConcept DV codec (shareware demo) Canopus DV codec (freeware) Panasonic DV codec (undocumented)	30
	Australian Game Developers Conference 2003 Runner up professional games - Half Brick Studios / Fuzz & Rocket Winner professional games - White Noise Games / Ash Runner up independent games - LPHPNL / X-fire Winner independent games - AIE / Frost AGDC @ Atomic	38
back issues	Back the f**k up	40
reviews	My secret love.	43
	Framerate: Latest graphics cards, CPUs and motherboards Sparkle FX5950 Ultra ASUS Radeon 9600XT MSI GeForce FX5950 Ultra MSI GeForce FX5700 Ultra Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro ABIT AN7 uGuru Sapphire AXION RS300-MA39 MSI PT880 Neo-FISR	44
	Atomic Benchmarks Aquamark 3 Call of Duty UT2003 3DMark03 3DMark2001SE pro SYSmark2002	48
	Gigabyte GN-WLBZ201 USB memory key and WiFi adapter	50
	Toshiba Portege M200 tablet PC	50
	Prometeia Mach II refrigerated cooling unit	52
	Thermaltake Aquarius III water cooling unit	52
	Netgear MR814 Cable/DSL Wireless Router	55
	MSI DR8-A DVD burner	55
games	Cheat bitching: FFS	57
	Engine room: Keeping it unreal... again.	58
	Scanner: Next in line: GPU as CPU Creative own Sensura	60
	Tony Hawk Underground	62
	Manhunt	60
	Secret Weapons Over Normandy	65
	UFO: Aftermath	65
	Beyond Good and Evil	66
	Counter-Strike on Xbox	66
i/o	Stinking ratchet... USB Extender from MicroGram Computers Jaycar Electronic's Earth Loop Hum primer Xitel Isolation Transformer Freakazoid Toshiba reference	68
Phr33x Tw33x	Sergeant Peppercorn's Lonely Tweaks Club Hiding and displaying accounts on the Windows XP Welcome Screen Clearing the Windows XP pagefile Adding to the 'Send To' option Restoring the Show Desktop icon	71
tutorial	Techjitsu: DIY wireless PC/IRDA interface	72
subscription	Sub-atomican: subscriber card for 2-year subscribers	78
competition	O!	79
subscriptions	Sub-ocelot: Win the ultimate ASUS upgrade kit!	80
fallout	The Italian Job	82
crashtest	#10 - The Three Stages of Geek Drinking	82

VIA gets Deltachrome into production.

Interplay closes Black Isle studios.

DVD burner production moves to Taiwan.

IGN and GameSpy finalise merger agreement.

Xbox and GameCube sell well in December.

'Corroded' by Kimberley Roberts - page 42

'Snow Trooper' by Winston 'Cisco' Monzon - page 56


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