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(10:45 PM CST)
3Dfx Voodoo 3
Yummy...all sorts of cool things going on today. At Comdex, 3Dfx had a demo board of their third generation card, called (oh so surprisingly), the Voodoo 3. Here's a quote from AnandTech that caught my eye:
The cards will be available in an AGP 2X flavor (none of the AGP 1X Banshee crap), they will both be an integrated 2D/3D solution, and the Voodoo3 chipset will boast dual texture processing units like the Voodoo2.
According to 3Dfx, the 8.1 million transistors found on the Voodoo3 will be able to process more than 100 billion operations per second, more than 7 million triangles per second, 366 million texels per second, and overall it should offer about 2 - 3x the performance of a Voodoo2 SLI. From AnandTech's brief encounter with 3Dfx this morning, the closest thing to a relative benchmark would be the claim that a Pentium II system running the current revision of the Voodoo3 silicon was able to achieve 30.1 fps in Quake 2 at 1600 x 1200, in comparison to the absolutely unplayable < 15 fps of a similar configuration on a Riva TNT.
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(10:32 PM CST)
New WinAmp: 2.05
Silly me, forgot to post this - yup, new Winamp (again). They have too much time on their hands...download it by clicking here. Here's a direct rip off of BetaNews:
Nullsoft has released Winamp 2.05, new in this version includes:
- wVis 4.0 (better fullscreen support, new effects, higher quality rendering!)
- Preliminary CDDB support. It rocks!
- Massively better HTTP streaming. Even allows you to psuedo-stream MOD and MIDI files!
- Much improved MOD/XM/IT playback.
- A lot of new IPC stuff (for plug-in authors)
- Bugfixes galore
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(10:14 PM CST)
ICQ 99a Build 1620 Out
This is the newest build of the new ICQ...don't have it available for local download yet, but I'll see if I can grab it from somewhere and post it up here later. Oh, and you can check the build that you're currently running by hitting the ICQ button -> Help -> About, and ICQ'll spit out all of that info.
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(2:05 AM CST)
Anime stuff
If you're interested at all in anime (which you damn well should be - if not, see me), here are a couple of sites that could make your day:
http://www.poshnet.com/Asuka/music/
ftp://kame.usr.dsi.unimi.it/pub/IAC/sorted
I've already gotten all of the Eva that they had to offer - it's all available from the new songs directory on the FTP server. I'm replacing the other copy of Eva that I had on the server, because this one is much more organized, has way more songs, etc. There are still three more CDs worth of soundtrack for Eva that I'm trying to track down, but Andrew has two of those, so it's just the Eva: Addition CD that I need to find. If I can't find it, I may buy it just to complete the collection...
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