Forum Home
Press F1
Thread ID: 25238	2002-09-29 08:50:00	SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29	tweak'e (174)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
84404	2002-09-29 08:50:00	Unreal Tournament 2003 leaked to net UT2003 has been leaked to the net . The game is over three CD's and you can get the details of the leak here ( . isonews . com/release . php3?releaseid=62044" target="_blank">www . isonews . com) . Yamaha CRW-F1 Review at Tom's Hardware Tom's Hardware has reviewed the new Yamaha CRW-F1 ( . tomshardware . com/storage/02q3/020927/index . html" target="_blank">www6 . tomshardware . com), one of the first in the new breed of burners that can burn images on the back of a CDR . Here's a fill from the review: To grasp how DiscT@2 works, you have to understand how data is burned onto a blank CD-R . Recorders use a process called EFM (Eight to Fourteen Modulation) to burn data on a CD-R . This data shows up on the areas that the laser burns or leaves blank, known as pits and lands . It is the pits which make the recorded parts of a CD look darker than the parts which stay blank . So that the CRW-F1 can create very fine zones (0 . 1 micrometer minimum) in different shades, Yamaha has bypassed the EFM process which restricts zone size to between 3T (0 . 83 micrometers at 1 . 2 m/s) and 11T (3 . 05 micrometers at 1 . 2 m/s) . The DiscT@2 system enables the laser to burn pits of varying length and breadth, so different shades can be burned onto the CD . On a tattooed CD-R, there will be a zone with data encoded by the EFM process and another corresponding to the blank data-free spaces, where graphics and text will be visible . Remember that once a CD is tattooed, it cannot be rewritten, because tattooing always has to come after the TOC (Table Of Contents), thus making it impossible to add a session . I gotta get me one of these . NVidia 3D Stereo drivers for Windows9x/ME/2000/XP nVidia has released new 30 . 87 3D stereo drivers for Windows9x/ME and 2000/XP, for those people using 3d Stereoscopic glasses . They have also released new Stereo Driver Control Panels for those with 3D glasses . Windows 9x/ME (ftp://download1 . nvidia . com/stereo/30 . 87/win9x_30 . 87 . exe) Windows 2000/XP ( . nvidia . com/stereo/30 . 87/Win2kxp_30 . 87 . exe" target="_blank">download1 . nvidia . com) Stereo driver Control Panels ( . nvidia . com/stereo/30 . 87/Stereo_30 . 87 . exe" target="_blank">download1 . nvidia . com) ATI Radeon drivers 6 . 13 . 10 . 6178 Some new ATI drivers for Radeon based graphics cards have been released with a version number 6 . 13 . 10 . 6178 . These are for all Windows versions with no word on what's changed . Radeon Drivers Windows 9x/ME ( . ati . com/drivers/wme-radeon-4-13-01-9066 . exe" target="_blank">mirror2 . ati . com) Radeon Drivers Windows 2000/XP ( . ati . com/drivers/wxp-w2k-radeon-6-13-10-6178 . exe" target="_blank">mirror2 . ati . com) BIOS Updates There are new BIOS updates out for the following motherboards from Asus, Abit , Aopen , MSI and Soltek: Asus Asus Bios P4B533-M 1010 Final (=1010 - 01 Beta) Asus Bios P4T533 1005 Final (=1005 - 03 Beta) Asus Bios A7M266-D 1008 Final (= 1008 - 001-A Beta ) Download Here ( . asuscom . de/support/techmain/technical . htm?ctn4" target="_blank">www . asuscom . de) Abit Abit BIOS BJ BD7/BD7-RAID (Revision 1 . 0) (ftp://ftp . abit . com . tw/pub/download/bios/bd7/bd7bj . exe) Abit BIOS BK BD7m (Revision 1 . 0) (ftp://ftp . abit . com . tw/pub/download/bios/bd7m/bd7mbk . exe) Abit BIOS BD NV7-133R (Revision 1 . 0) (ftp://ftp . abit . com . tw/pub/download/bios/nv7-133r/nv7bd . exe) Abit BIOS BE NV7m (Revision 1 . 0, Revision 1 . 1) (ftp://ftp . abit . com . tw/pub/download/bios/nv7m/nv7mbe . exe) Abit Bios BQ SR7-8X (ftp://ftp . abit . com . tw/pub/download/bios/sr7-8x/sr7bq . exe) Abit BIOS BF TH7II/TH7II-RAID (Revision 1 . 0) (ftp://ftp . abit . com . tw/pub/download/bios/th7-ii/th7hbf . exe) Aopen Aopen Bios 1 . 00 AK77-8X (ftp://ftp . aopen . com . tw/pub/bios/ak778x/) Aopen Bios 1 . 00 AK77-8XN (ftp://ftp . aopen . com . tw/pub/bios/ak778xn/) Aopen Bios 1 . 02 AX4B-533-TUBE ( . aopen . com . tw/downloads/default . asp?sel=category&by=Motherboards&selcategory=Socket%20478:%20Pentium%204%20" target="_blank">club . aopen . com . tw(Intel%2 0845E)&selmodel=AX4B-533%20Tube&selcategory1=close) Aopen Bios 1 . 03 AX45-533 (ftp://asftp . aopen . com . tw/pub/bios/ax45533/45dx103 . zip) MSI MSI BIOS 5 . 6 KT3 Ultra2 ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=341&NAME=MS-6380E" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw) MSI BIOS 5 . 6 KT3 Ultra ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=11&NAME=MS-6380E" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw) MSI BIOS 5 . 6 KT3 Ultra-ARU ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=30&NAME=MS-6380E" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw) MSI BIOS 5 . 6 K7T266 Pro2-A ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=320&NAME=MS-6380E" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw Ver1 . 0) MSI BIOS 1 . 3 KT3 Ultra2-C ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=357&NAME=MS-6593" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw) MSI BIOS 5 . 1 MS-6533EG ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=353&NAME=MS-6533EG" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw) MSI Bios 1 . 5 K7D Master ( . msi . com . tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail . php?UID=73&NAME=MS-6501" target="_blank">www . msi . com . tw) Soltek Soltek Bios 1 . 6 SL-75DRV5 ( . soltek . com . tw/downloads/bios/75dr5-16 . bin" target="_blank">www . soltek . com . tw) Unreal Tournament 2003 in stores Reports have started coming in the UT2003 has shipped and has already made it's way onto some store shelves . The games features more than 30 arena's, 50 detailed characters and 10 unique worlds, a huge arsenal of weapons and a host of improvements on its popular predecessor . The sequel to the popular multiplayer action shooter features an upgraded 3D engine with new environments, characters, weapons, game modes, and special moves, as well as better artificial intelligence, new special effects, and new game types . Look for it in your nearest PC software retailer now . Unreal Tournament 2003 logo's If your sick of the nVidia logo at the start of the UT2003 demo, hen you can change it and customise the demo with the logo of your choice . This ( . free . fr/modules/news/article . php?storyid=85" target="_blank">xabregamers . free . fr) site has some nifty alternative logos you can use and all you need to do is extract the patch to your UT2003Demo\Textures folder . Have a look at the logos and be impressed by some . Unreal tournament 2003 intro! Ign . com has posted up a copy of the UT2003 intro movie if you want a mouth watering taste until you get your hands on the real thing . The movie is 26MB and is in Quicktime format . Unreal tournament 2003 ( . ign . com/pc/video/unreal2003_092502_01 . mov" target="_blank">pcmovies . ign . com) RivaTuner 2 . 0 RC12 Released RivaTuner 2 . 0 RC12 has been released with a rather long list of changes ad additions, too long to fit on this page, so you can read them here ( . guru3d . com/rivatuner/" target="_blank">www . guru3d . com) . RivaTuner is one of the original and probably the best tweaking program for your nVidia based video card, although this new version now adds support for the ATi Radeon as well as the GeForce4 . Mirror 1 ( . ru/index . shtml" target="_blank">nvworld . ru) Mirror 2 ( . guru3d . com/files/rivatuner/" target="_blank">www . guru3d . com) Norton AntiVirus Definitions 27/09/2002 Symantec released a new AntiVirus definition file for the following AntiVirus products: NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel) NAV for MS Exchange (Intel) NAV 4 . 0, 5 . 0 and 2000 for Windows 9x/Me NAV 4 . 0, 5 . 0 and 2000 for Windows NT NAV 2000 for Windows 2000 NAV for Firewalls pcAnywhere32 7 . 5 and higher for Windows NT Norton Utilities for Windows 9x/Me (all versions) Norton SystemWorks (all versions) Grab it manually if your LiveUpdate subscription has expired or use the LiveUpdate if your still in your first 12 months of use . Norton AntiVirus Definitions 27/09/2002 ( . symantec . com/avcenter/download/us-files/20020927-004-i32 . exe" target="_blank">securityresponse . symantec . com) HP Pavilion and Windows XP Service Pack 1 incompatibility If your running a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion or Compaq Presario PC with Windows XP pre-installed you may experience problems after installing Windows XP Service Pack 1 . The problem you may encounter, is an issue with the PC System Recovery utility . If you use this utility to perform a non-destructive system recovery, you might be unable to start your computer . Recovering from this error requires a full destructive system recovery, which results in the loss of all user data . To address the problem Hewlett-Packard will be releasing an update to the PC System Recovery utility soon . You can read the full details of the problem in Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q329450 ( . microsoft . com/default . aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q329450" target="_blank">support . microsoft . com) . thx thy god monty ( . ozquake . com/montysdump/index . html" target="_blank">www . ozquake . com)	tweak'e (174)
84405	2002-09-29 09:09:00	Err . . . . tweak'e . . . . . . I think it would have been better putting "Sunday news 29/09/02" in the header . Bruce is going to completely pass over this edition for the sticky! :D And it's going to miss the search bot when we put "news" in the search field . :-( Or maybe not: NEWS NEWS NEWS <Mental note to self: put three "news" in search field . > :D	Susan B (19)
84406	2002-09-29 09:16:00	Hi tweak'e The Yamaha sounds very, very interesting. Wonder if they need a special blank CDR?	ajcwilson (2019)
84407	2002-09-29 09:16:00	The Warriors made it :D :D :D :D :D Mike.	Mike (15)
84408	2002-09-29 09:22:00	>> The Warriors made it Made what?	Susan B (19)
84409	2002-09-29 09:23:00	It's a bit ironic that the MS workaround for the HP Pavillion XP SP1 restore cock-up uses DOS commands. I thought that MS now abhors DOS and have been trying to hide it ever since Win95?	Terry Porritt (14)
84410	2002-09-29 09:30:00	sorry susan....darn typo ;-) forgot to add the news bit when i copy/pasted.	tweak'e (174)
84411	2002-09-29 09:57:00	dude, you expect too much from them.... MS have been "trying" to make a stable, secure, user friendly operating system... you don't see them winning with that promise either do you?	loser (538)
84412	2002-09-29 22:46:00	Um, Susan - you need to keep up with what's going on in this country... watch some TV... or at least check out the news at xtramsn.com or somewhere! > > > The Warriors made it > > Made what? The GRAND FINAL! :D Mike.	Mike (15)
84413	2002-09-30 11:00:00	Mike. The grand final what?? Poppa John	Poppa John (284)
1 2