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Hardware

30 Nov
Hardware Windows 95/98
Matrox ICD Update

Matrox regrets to announce that it has pushed back the release of its OpenGL ICD to Wednesday, December 9, 1998.

26 Nov
Hardware
New Matrox MGA-G200 Drivers Released

Matrox has released a new driver for the Matrox MGA-G200. This driver is the same is the 4.50beta2 and it fixes the recent problems with Half-Life.

23 Nov
Hardware
Voodoo3 Interview

AGN Hardware has put up an interview that was conducted at Comdex with Saul, the product manager for the Voodoo3.

19 Nov
Hardware
Creative Labs Releases New Drivers

Creative Labs has released new drivers for the Sound Blaster PCI128, Sound Blaster PCI64, Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI, Graphics Blaster Riva TNT, 3D Blaster Banshee, and Sound Blaster Live!

17 Nov
Hardware
SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel Released

Microsoft announced today the release of its SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel.

16 Nov
Hardware Windows 95/98
Voodoo Banshee PC-OEM Relationships

The company also announced several strategic PC-OEM relationships that will deliver Voodoo Banshee graphics worldwide to consumers purchasing PCs from Tiny Computers, CyberMax, Pionex Technologies and Quantex Microsystems.

16 Nov
Hardware
3Dfx Voodoo3 Announced

The first members of the product family, which are expected to be available commercially in the second quarter of 1999, include the pin-compatible Voodoo3 2000 for the PC OEM market and the Voodoo3 3000 for the retail add-in-board market.

16 Nov
Hardware
T-100MMR Motherboard Announced

NVIDIA Corporation announced today that STB Systems, a leading developer of multimedia and convergence products, will display a new motherboard product this week at Fall Comdex '98, being held November 16-20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

16 Nov
Hardware
AMD-K6-2 400 MHz Processor Introduced

AMD today introduced versions of the AMD-K6-2 processor with 3DNow! technology operating at speeds of 400, 380 and 366 MHz.