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The move to tfigital has
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cameras coming in at just under the $1,000 mark and
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and outs ofcameras. storage media, printers and soon EfllmlllAL
now. whether at home Edllor-In-Chisl Andrew MooreCrisp-‘n
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one polite enough to feign interest in our family or whether you use a low-end digital point and shoot. pro‑ Contributing Editors SeanCarruthers
fessional level digital SLR or any variation In between, lhy Richards. Lee llrcltvmd
vacation snaps. Marc Salttman. David lanalta
figuratively. we seem to view captured frames as hav‑ the important thing is just to take pictures.
Art Director Steven Starter
ing less intrinsic value; it doesn't matter if you shoot a
dozen pictures ofthe same landscapeor if you burn off Enjoy the Issue. Advertising Sales
six frames capturing what may turn out later to be a Andrew Moo rs-Crlspln
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photography sites online. we‘re able to see pictures
ty to swap my lenses between the cameras. I like my WESYEHN CANAUA
that we might not otherwise have been exposed to, Who've-Nouns;
cameras, but I really like my lenses.
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student have? Whatever your opinion, we want to hear
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l a " ; pe'ia: ‐ 1 held the shutter button down for one minute [normal there's nary a hint cl compressmn artifacts.
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cz‐oe'. r : t a oSLR lens reflex cameras. the Et'olt 5-300 could be mistaken for a somewhat
fine." 32. too the “705 as a"w:n Eens' manage, gcu get a very good overs-zed point n' shooter An SLR it dcfinilelg is. however; the flattnp
18-73 We zoo-n that n : o - p : ' a t e s f.‘ ko-r's special low-oaspersion E0 profile is achieved by using a side-swinging mirror rather than a prism.
3 ass eier-e'tts Eetaase ofthe 1 51 he'd cfvxew adjustment factor. the That's not the onlg unusual aspect of the Walt. Olympus has charted its
15.73 zoo?» ra-ge is eat. .-ale: to a;;.’cnsma'tefg 2?-105 mm on a own dSLR course. starting wrth a clean sheet design spec called Four‑
5-71 "7." s a m e ' a Thirds for us pro-level 5-1 and enlrg-level E-300 lines. Olgmpus states it
The best specs t the wo'ld w:-..'= l:e S'F'FEj atechmcal euetcise iithe chose this architecture because it prov-fled “the best size-to-perlorm.
saw-era t: or‘t d: what rt was oes'gneo to on. wh'ch I5 to take photos ance benefits.‘ And small it i s , although the Pentax 'istDS is lighter and
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r-tost entrg~level dSLRs have a six megapixel sensor, but the E-300 bet‘
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fi n k “ : pile] images at i t s highest resolution, The body construction is also
unusual It has an aluminum chassis under that plastic skin. and feels
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ital SLRs, since the inner workings are exposed each time an inter‑
changeable lens is removed. To combat this, the E300 incorporates
Olympus' Supersonic Wave Filter designed to keep the sensor free of
such debris. In short, the E-300 is loaded with technical innovation.
It's also a capable shooter, performing very well in a variety of indoor
and outdoor situations. The 14-45 mm zoom has a good balance ofwide
angle and telephoto performance, and the focusing proved to be very
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shoot-rig performance ‐ firing off 154 frames in a minute ‐ but a! hlgh‑
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frames, in high quality JPEG mode, the camera stopped firing after 15
frames, and in raw lmage mode, afterjust four frames. For more leisure‑
ly shooting, however, the camera was always ready and a pleasure
to use,
The image quality is very pleasmg, with rich colours and good detail.
0vera|l,this camera would make a very good entry into the world of dig‑
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The Digital Rebel XT continues the Rebel tradition with an accessible,
lightweight and easy to operate dSLR camera.
An automatic setting makes the camera easy to use forthe point-and‑
shoot crowd, and scene modes help for fine‐tuning the way an image is
captured. For the more ambitious among us, users can also s e t the l a m ‑
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manual option allows users a still greater degree of control.
The same jog wheel is used to adjust both shutter and aperture set‑
tings with somewhat awkward button presses in between to switch
between them, This is not unique to the Rebel XThowever and with the
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improved buffer and 0IGIC ii, the Rebel XT can capture 14 successive
images at three frames per second in Large made before slowing down
to a still respectable about one second per shot. With its film legacy comes a large number of compatible lenses, incluu.
The Rebel KTalso offers a mirror lock function for cleaning the capture ing optics from Pentax’s K through RAF? to screw mount and others,
plane very carefully. Some may require an adapter to mount to the ' i s t 05 and not all lens or
camera functions wall necessarily be available on the lens selected,
Pentax ’:’ist 05 Arelatively large two~inch LCD and anuncluttered and logically laid out
The Pentax ‘ist USdoes things a little differently. While other dSLRs button and dial configuration make the camera a good choice for gang.
we’ve seen have rechargeable battery packs, Pentax ships with two dis‑ aI family use too.- an automatic setting does a good job and helps in a
posable 3V lithium cells, and where other companies stick with shared camera situation.
EompactFlash II storage media, the 05 uses physically smaller Image processing is slower than the other dSLRs tested and users can
SecureDigital cards. only realistically shoot off five frames in RAW before the camera needs
Users can substitute the two 3Vcells for four rechargeableAAbatteries. to take an estimated 35 second break between shots.
and since the 3Vcells are lithium, they won't lose their charge and can The actual camera start upt i m e seems unaffected by the sluggishness
be kept on hand asa spare however, and it's ready to shoot within a fraction of a second (Pentax
Pentax is trying to fill in the small and light space for dSLR cameras and suggests .2 seconds] of turning it on.
succeeds. The ‘ist DS clocks in at a mere 805 g with batteries and The auto focus seems confused at times relative to the other cameras
memory card installed and is physically the smallest of the four cam‑ tested, tending to second-guess itself.
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photos that will one day mortify mydaughter. l‘m going to make sure it [ranging from wallet size to 8x12). lhe print ordering feature is handy,
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Part 2: Basic tone and colour corrections
Last month we opened this series on restoring photos with some
scanning basics. Let‘s now turn to tone and colour correction basics.
Most image editors have several tools that you can use to make
these changes and often there is more than one way to perform a
correction, so feel free to experiment. Before you start, you should
make a copy of your original file, so that you can always go back to it
if necessary. As an overall strategy. work with adjustment layers
where possible, as they have a few advantages.
A good tool to start with is levels or a levels adjustment layer. The
levels panel shows adistribution of values from 0 [no value, black] to
255 [maximum value, white). Below the histogram is a thin bar that
goes from black to white, and below the bar are three triangular mark‑
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A common problem with old photos is a limited range of tones. You
can see this graphically ‐ the histogram will span a narrower range
so there won't bevalues all the way to 0 on the dark side, orto 255 on
the light side. When you take the black slider and move it toward the
centre, you can see the image get darker; likewise, move the white
slider toward the middle and the image becomes lighter. By moving
these sliders, you are re-establishing the white and black points of
your photo, You can use thresholds to find the darkest and lightest
areas of the photo, or you can use your own sense of aesthetics.
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to pick for the blackest black, since there would be no detail you’d
want to expose there. Likewise for a white point, the reflection off a
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How many of you go raw?
That is, how many videographers out there willingly show, share or sell
raw, unedited video footage? Whether it‘s home movies from a recent
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processing using several different codecs, or video
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tellers prefer to rearrange and re~emphasize the scenes they capture. Two DVcameras were used, and about four hours of footage was shot.
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And yes, sometimes in the rush to get from one location to another,
3 you leave the camera rolling. ending up with several minutes of some‑
one's shoes, running along a sidewalk!
Shooting on Mini DVmeans the footage has to be transferred [not
many people have DVtape machines at home] so the opportunity to
manipulate the video while getting it to DVD or VHS usually presents
itself no matter what.
Sure, it's easy to edit digital video today [and we will explore several
ways to dosoin upcoming columns]. but when neither time nor budg~
et is available to clean up the footage or edit it down a bit, what do you
do? Show the raw, unedited footage, warts and all? Try and explain
why all the extraneous imagery is included? Pull an all-nighter and edit
the darn thing anyway?
From the rather basic. often built-in video editing tools that come with
the major operating systems [like Windows Movie Maker or Apple's
iMovie] to more sophisticated high end video finishing packages like
Sony Vegas or Avid‘s Express Pro. there are a wealth of digital video
editing tools. techniques and technologies out there.
We'll talk about some ofthose choices in future columns; in the mean‑
time, we're happy to keep receiving your comments and questions ‑
whether raw or edited.
By Lee Rickwood
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The cost oi priming photos from a photo printer still averages out to be of an ACplug. of course].
significantly higher [around P0cents per photo accordingto our caicu- The printer auto-detects the number of photos on any card inserted
lations] than having them processed at a photo lab [49 cents per digi- into its front-mounted card readerand gives users the option to print all
tal print asadvertised at Blacks Photography]. However, portable photo
printers offer the significant advantage of immediacy ‐ minutes after
the photograph is taken, you can be holding the fresh, glossy 4x5 in
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HUB took a closer look at five of these portable photo printers

Epeon PIctureMete Deluxe Viewer Edition

Price: $319.99 Type: Inkjet Weight: 2.5 kg
Dimensions (cm, HxWxD]:15i3x25i?x15r5
Mex resolution: 5?60x1440 optimized dpi
Cards eupported: CompactFlash Type I and II, MagicGate Memory Stick,
Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO. Microdrive, MultiMedia Card. Secure
Digital, SmartMedia.xDPicture Card, xDPicture Card Type M
Approx. cost per print: 406 Average time per print as tested: 1:31

The PictureMate is one of the most truly "portable" photo printers on

the market, given that its built-in colour LCD screen and extensive
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either be viewed as a slide show or displayed In groups of several per
screen [useful for cycling through a large volume of pictures]
The LCD~driven interface is very intuitive to navigate. Using the arrow
keys and OKbutton while in thumbnail view. the user can easily toggle
the number of copies to print and customize the layout by adding our
ders [includingaselection of Disney "fun frames']. print sheets ofwal‑
let-sized photos, add a date or time stamp to the photo, and apply black
and white or sepia color effects. [These steps can also be performed
with the help of aMzard.)
Users can also perform rudimentary photo editing lunctions straight
from the printer, including adjusting the brightness. saturation and
sharpness of a photo, rotating and cropping, and zooming in or out.
The (ID-ROM included with the PictureMate contains Epson Software
FilmFactory and Epson PhotoCenter. The latter installs a desktop link to
Epson‘s free photo sharing Web site. where users can organize and
store pics online. print from the Web. and create online postards Film
Factory is a photo editor that also manages all photos stored on the PC
for printing through the PictureMate when docked via an A - 8 USB
cable (not included].
The pictures the PictureMate produced in our tests were punchy with
good colour balance and strong hues. The combination of very good
photo quality with medium-fast printing time and good useability make
the Picture e a great all-around choice. Although saddled with an
expensive suggested retail price of $319.99 - at least $100 more than
some of the other printers tested ‐the investment should pay off in the
longrun since the Epsonwas the least expensive printerto maintain by
a wide margin at a mere 40 cents per sheet.
Sony DPP-FPSD
Price: $249.99
Welgltt: 1.2 kgwithout tray
Dlmsnslena (cm. m m ) : SAxZDBxIZB
Nair resolution: 300x300 dpi
Typo: Dye-sublimation
Cards supported: CompactFlash, Memory Stick. Memory Stick lhio,
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renaming each photo's default alphanumeric file‑
must beinserted into the side ofthe machine [jutting out a good five or sixname to something recognizable.
inches], and when priming, the paper feeds through either end. The getup While the LCD ensures that the DPP‐FPSU can function as a standalone if
seems a bit fragile, and there needs to be ample space around both ends needed. the printer needs to be connected to a television or PCto unlock
of the printer so that the paper doesn't get caught An attachment built its most powerful features The DPP~FPSO connects to a PCvia an A ‐ B
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lhe DPP-FPSO has a non-colour LCD that is capable of displaying text but noise~reducing clamp filter that the manual instructs the user to attach to
not pictures, so you can preview the file names of each photo, but not the the separately purchased cable is.
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an index card that can fit 48 thumbnails with file-names listed above each a photo editing tool that contains such features as red eye reduction,
as a means of selecting which photos you want to print. However, given colour-correction, zooming and cropping There's also a prints studio with
that a page costs around 8? cents to print on the DPP-FPSU, you might templates for creating things like calendars, postcards, and more.
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the ethertest pic.thoughit fared a little better. was
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Canon SELF!“ 05700

Price: $249.99
Weight: 1.8 kg
Olivier-alone (cm. H m ) : 29x21.6x21.6
Mair retaliation: 4800x1200 dpi
type: Inkjet
Card: supported: L'ompactFlash. MagicGete
Memory Stick. Memory Stick. Memory Stidt PRO.
Kodak EnyShara Printer Dock Plus Microdrive. HultiMedia Card. Secure Digital.
Price: $199.95 SmartMedia (3.3v only)
Weight: 1.11kg (with tray] Apprerdmte cost per print: 63C
Dimensions (cm, wam]: 33.3x13.8x8.4 [wltray] Average time to print as tested: 1:32
Max resolution: 300 ppi[piirels per inch]
Type: Continuous tone thermal~dye transfer with no LCD or navigation buttons. pictures on the
Cards supported: Secure Digital. MultiMedia Cards Canon SELPHY DS?00need to beviewedthroughthe
Approximate cost per print: 82: TV. PL USE-connected camera. or mobile phone vb
Average time to print as tested: 0:58 its Inlrared port.
However, the included (ID-ROM does contain an
Kodak's EasyShare printer dock is a bit er! a maver‑ extremely uselul memory card utility that. when
ick in our roundup given that it's designed to specif‑ installed on a Pt, autodetects any memory card
ically accommodate digital cameras in Kodak's inserted into the Canon's card slot while it is eon‑
EasyShare line. The printer has no built-in LCD. but nectedtothePCviaarm-includedA-BUSBcable.
its top spans a docking station for EasyShare cani‑ then prompts the user to import photos from the
eras to be mounted on. alter which users can card onto the PCfor editing and printing.
browse images on the camera using the camera's The disc's editing software. Easy-thoPrint.ontop
own LCD. or connect the printer to a TV screen via of being a printing utility with rotate. trim. and date
video cables to get ablownup view. stamp functions. also offers several photo enhance‑
The printer does feature support for SDand Mill: ment functions such asred eye reduction.1manual
cards, but there's no way of navigating the contents blemish remover. and digital lace smoothing.bright‑
of the cards independently of the docked camera. eningand sharpening. While interestingtoysto play
When we tried to print photos lrorn the card reader with. the applications admittedly weren‘t that effec‑
that had been dragged onto a card from a PC, the tive. (If you're serious about image editing. stick
EasgShare detected the card, but not the photos with Hmoshop.)
[perhaps bemse they were in a separate sub~ Next to the Epson, Canon is the cheapest printerto
directory] When the same card was inserted into a maintain ataround 63cents per photo. However,“
Kodak EasyShare camera and additional pictures photos it yielded in our test were of relatively poor
were taken with said camera, the primer did recog‑ quality ‐ washed out and “dusty" looking,
nize those pictures when the a r d was reinserted.
The included CD-RDM installs EnyShare Software
with a nice variety of editing options includingcrop.
red-eye reduction, adjusting brightness/contrast.
and some neat filters such as black and White.
colouring book, cartoon. and fish-eye lense.
While the EasyShare printer dock's compact, light‑
weight size and last printing time are advantages.
its photo quality was one of the weakest in the
roundup, beingupstaged by the DPP-FPSO, Lexmarlt
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Why not join the “minimalist movement' and invest in just one remote to player and receiver.
then changing the
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three new and unique TVremotes that should appear to a dillerent user. comfortable than any other on the market. Asmall LCD screen pro‑
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questions. ‐Works with both t'lmdows and Macs
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seconds. this device will automatically set up all your applicable Eons:
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MCSE Server 2003 life. Similarly. a built-in tilt switch
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when not in use. This remote is quite
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forkids.
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unwanted channels.
Heck, it's so small, inexpensive and simple-to-use, you may want this
for yourself instead!
Proe:
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‐SimpIe-to-use
‐-Cute design
-Attractive price
Cone:
‐Limited in functionality
‐Not as easy to program as other “learning“ remotes
By Marc Saltzman
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may implement in either their distributed media [including (305 that purchase. but with the advent of legal digital music downloads in
and DVDs] or the devices designed to play them. This technology is Canada, l decided to give it a try.
known as Digital Rights Management or'DRM.‘ Finding a song I was interested in on PureTracks.com was a relatively sim‑
I suppose the best way to illustrate how DRM affects the average ple matter ‐ downloadingit and getting it to play was not. First off. the site
technology user would be to draw a couple of examples from my would not allow me to download the tune until I had installed Microsoft
own personal experience. Windows Media Player 9 of course they didn't tell me this until I had pur‑
chased. The reason? The track was
encoded in such a manner as to pre‑
clude its playback on any software
save Media Player 9,which has strong
support for DRM. Of course. at the
time. this software wasn‘t exactly
stable and I soon discovered after
downloading and installing it that my
computer was now completely sound
free ‐ and not in aliberating way.
No amount of tweaking over the
course of an entire week could get my
sound back. So, havingno way to play
the song on my main PC. I moved it
over to asecondary o n e only to now
realize that the file was encoded to
play solely on the machine to which it
had originally been downloaded,
Since my primary motivation for
acquiring this song in the first place
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and faced with the prospect of watching Air Canada-selected enter‑
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be a good idea to buy a DVD from a record store to watch on my
notebook computer instead. Well it turned out that Air Canada sur‑
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I now had to go back to the site more than one recorded copy and the ability to disallow skipping of
and obtain a license key for that commercials were included in the spec.
machine which finally enabled me, Fortunately, the FCC lost the first battle on this one as the United
after more than a week, to hear the States government stated that the passing ofthis bill did not fall under
the FEC’s jurisdiction. Obviously, this doesn't mean that the Broadcast
Flag is going away ‐just that it'll have to gothrough different channels
to become law. In fact, electronics manufacturers [many of whom, like
Sony, are content distributors aswell] have for some time now been so
certain of its enaction that they have long been producing hardware
music twice in so doing, I decided to burn it to a rewritable CDand then that conforms with the specification ‐ go figure.
rip that to an MP3 instead. It seems the digital wild west is rapidly coming to end, resulting in ~lair
Sonow I had a doubly compressed tune that I could play on any device use” being heavily trodden underfoot. Weare now shackled wrth even
and a week ofmy free time had been shot. And though I had indeed paid more restrictive content consumption limitations than we had before
for this song in terms of the original purchase and my acquisition of a the digital revolution, while at the same time these technologies are
rewritable CD, my music was now illegal And the music industry won‑ nonetheless being touted as"liberating“ by the media companies Iob~
ders why people forego the preceding steps and simply download a byingto deploy them. Frankly, even George Orwell would be impressed
pirated copy in the first place. by this latest incarnation of newspeak,
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being found in the so called 'Broadcast Flag,"originally proposed by the By Ray Richards
FCC to be enacted by June 1 of this year. This technology would have
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3] Norealistic worries about spyware or viruses. Well, not yet anyhow. manage folders filled with
Whereas it seems that I'm spending much of my time running spyware images is pretty lame in some
or virus scans on my PC. there's no real need to do so on the Mac at ways: sure, you can import all
this point. of your photos into iPhoto and
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any software on the machine, even upgrades from Apple. Sounds of the photos, Control-click on
annoying. right? Well, it's what's keeping the system more secure than them and open them up as a
a Windows machine. By forcing you to type your password any time slide show, and can even 'pre‑
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1) The fact that you have to use the eject icon before removing a USB
flash drive or other removable storage. Theoretically, you have to per‑ The ugly:
form a similar process with Windows before removing external storage The Mac file system‘s insistence on filling up hard drives or USB keys
to prevent data loss, but Windows is far more forgiving. Just yanking an with 'shadow' files of the same name but with "._' in front. If you regu‑
external drive on Mac can equal loads of corrupted data on that drive, larly share data between Mac and PCusing a USB key or an external
and the consequent premature graying. At least you don't have tothrow hard drive, get used to this feature Mac OShides them, but Windows
CDs or external drives into the trash can any more to eject them. doesn't. if you have 200 files on that key, plugging it into a Mac OSX
Throwing the icon for a removable drive into the trash still ejects it, system will add an additional 200 files with the prefix. The good
but at least the Finder now includes an eject symbol beside any rcmov~ news is that you can delete them without any real damage, but it's
able drives. annoying as stink.
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introduction to microphone recording Condensers are good for record‑
Even though you may create most of your music using a combination ing softer voice [though the
of samples, synths and digital or electric instruments that can be microphone can distort if the
plugged directly into the PE, there will most likely come a time when voice gets too loud], piano,
you want to do some live recording. acoustic guitar. and other light
Maybe you want a warm. expressive acoustic guitar sound but the instruments like flute.
General MIDI guitar on your cheap keyboard just isn't cutting it. Maybe
you've written some lyrics to go with your latest song, and want to Ribbon microphones
record a vocal track. Or maybe your band is all set to create its break‑ These mics are thin, lightweight
through single and you need to record several different live instru‑ [thanks to a lighter diaphragm],
ments at once. and extremely sensitive. They're
in these cases, your most important recording tool [besides the PC good at picking up bass frequen‑
itself, ofcourse] is the microphone, cies, and have a reputation for
The function of a microphone is to convert sound waves [acoustic delivering a warm sound while
energy] into an electrical audio signal that the computer can under‑ retaining the sensitivity of the
stand. All microphones contain a component called the “diaphragm," capacitor microphones.
which is a thin membrane that vibrates when struck by sound waves.
These vibrations are what convert the signal into electrical energy. Microphone Shapes
Microphones come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and types, Just as the various types of
and which variety you buy depends of course on what type of instru‑ microphones are each suited for
ments and sounds you intend to record. Here are the most common a particular recording situation,
microphones you'll see in a basic studio: the shape of the microphone
should also be considered.
Microphone Types Although there are many varia‑
Dynamic microphone: tions on microphone shapes,
The workhorses of the home recording studio, the dynamic micro‑ they can be boiled down to sev‑
phone has a heavy diaphragm and is quite durable. It has a lower sensi‑ eral broad categories based on
tivity relative to other microphone types. and as such is recommended sensitivity. [The area where the
for recording loud instruments like drums and powerful vocals [like microphone is most "sensitive"
rock or hip hop], or for other "close-up" recording situations where the is the area where it picks up the
microphone is positioned very close to the sound source. most sound]
Lower sensitivity means dynamic microphones are less susceptible to Uni-directional microphones, for example, are most sensitive at the
hum and radio frequency interference [RFI], but the trade-off is that front, and will most readily pick up sound from a source that is posi‑
they're less adept at capturing tioned straight in front of it, while picking up less of the sound from the
delicate instruments and back and sides. The cardioid microphone is a heart-shaped variation
subtleties. that, again, is most sensitive towards the front of the heart.
A variety of uni-directional microphone called the hypercardioid [so
Condenser microphones named for its ability to completely ignore sound from the sides and
Also known as capacitor back with no bleed-through] is especially useful for recording drums,
microphones, these mics where you might want for example to focus on picking up just the snare
require a separate DCto power sound with nobleed-through from the hi-hat.
the electronics and supply voltage to Omni-directional microphones, on the other hand, will pick up sound in
the diaphragm. This is known as "phantom a 3SO-degree radius. The quickest and easiest [and cheapest] way to
power," and is either supplied by batteries or by record agroup [especially agroup of a capella singers] is to plunk one
the mixer that the microphone is plugged into. of these microphones down and have them stand around it.
Because of the extra electricity running Finally, bi-directional microphones are sensitive at the front and back.
through the condenser microphone, it may be but not the sides, and thus are aptly called 'figure eight" mics. Figure
slightly noisierthan the dynamic mic [since all eights lend themselves well to recording a vocal duet, with each singer
electricity produces a certain amount of singing into one side of the microphone.
noise]. Condenser mics are also more suscep‑
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The Who's guitarist Pete Townsend is one ofthe most famous sufferers crowding onto public transportation, and more external stimuli. music
oftinnitus. a condition where the cells ofthe inner ear become so dam- listeners are being forced to crank upthe volume ontheir portable play‑
aged that they produce a non-stop "noise' resembling a loud, continu- ers to drown out all the noise ‐ and are doing their ears a disservice in
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While The Who's infamously loud concerts
no doubt contributed to Townsend's condi‑
tion - speaker output regularly exceeded
120 decibels, according to reports ‑
Townsend in a 198? LA Times interview
blamed his hearing loss on years of playing
his guitar loudly through headphones.
Although listening to music through head‑
phones is just one of many factors that can
contribute to hearing loss, health experts
are treating it as a cause for concern for a
few reasons.
One reason is that the ever-increasing stor‑
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to listen to music for hours at atime without
the breaks previously afforded by having to
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The inner ear is an extremely sensitive structure. The organ responsi‑
ble for hearing is actually a bone curled in onitselfthat is covered with
many tiny hairs, each of which vibrate in sympathy with different fre‑
quencies of sound waves to make up our complete range of hearing.
When these hairs are overstimulated by very loud or overly harsh
noises, or if fatigued by being exposed to continuous noise at a moder‑
ate-to-Ioud volume, they begin to die off. Hair cells representing high
frequencies are the most sensitive and therefore the first to be killed,
which is why people often first report hearing loss as not being able to
hear high frequencies [such as soft conversations in a crowded room].
When all the hairs representing a certain frequency band are killed. the
person can no longer hear that frequency at all.
"When you really work those hair cells. for example by goingto a con‑
cert antl being exposed to very loud levels for three hours straight it's
like trampling allover a lawn," says Tommy Choo, a senior audiologist at
the Canadian Hearing Society. "it gets trampled on and recovers. but
there's always a little bit that never recovers. 50 over time and over
exposure. it adds up to hearing loss.”
Once the damage has been done, it's permanent and incurable.
ihe solution to preventing hearing loss from using headphones obvi‑
ously isn't to stop listening to music altogether: Turning down the vol‑
ume on the music player would be a start, although that solution is
impractical in inherently noisy urban environments where listeners
often dojust the opposite.
“The subway is aperfect example of[people] turning upthe volume to
drown out the nolse,’ says Choo. "You have to speak quite loudly to hold
aconversation with someone, so I would say the noise levels are pretty
high already. 50 to actually hear the music over the noise level. you
have to turn the music up even louder than that.’
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102 dB ‐ 1.5 hours same time, cancel each other out [in the same way that adding +10 and
110 dB - .5 ours -1D equals zero].
115 dB ‐ 25 hours The degree to which the technology works depends on the quality of
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I they simply wedge into the ear and create a seal that blocks out exter‑ you watch, all these things add up,’ Choo says. "So if you dosomething
nal sounds. The upside is that they're lightweight, create no inherent noisy, just try to schedule in some quiet time. I know it's hard to do in
hiss. and function without bulky battery paks. Onthe downside, they the city.“
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download as many songs as they want for a single flat fee.
This is especially good news for music fans with digital music play‑
ers that aren't iPods ‐ though anyone can download music from the
i’funes store, those downloads can only be played on iPods or the
computer [unless you ‘crack'the digital rights management added
to the files, you can't play them on players from Samsung. Creative
oriRiver.]
RealNetworks‘ Rhapsody service has been available for a while,
but now has several tiers available, depending on how fanatical you
are about your music. The Rhapsody Unlimited servrce gives suh~
scribers access to over one million songs in the Rhapsody library,
for as little as USSB.33 per month. Rhapsody ToGogives users the
ability to send as many of those songs as they w a n t to their
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the Yahoo! Music Engine in order to take advantage of the service,
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music.yahoo.com/unlimitod. but again, for the time beingthe serv‑
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the~industry kafullle, but the music download icon ‐ now reborn as
apay-to-play service ‐ is one ofthe companies offering up unlimit‑
ed monthly downloads for a flat fee and unlike Rhapsody or
Yahoo!, it's available on this side of the border too. As I write this,
Napster's library is only about 700,000 songs deep, and the
Napster ToGoservice runs about 515 Canadian. That seems like a
lot, but when you consider that it's the same price as a single CD, it's
not quite so bad. You'll need to download the Napster client. which
will double asyour music library. Totransfer songs to your portable
player, you'll need one of the players that's compatible with the
client and the Napster To Go service, like the iRiver Hit), the
Samsung YH-BZD or the Creative Zen Micro. [See www.napster.ca
fora list of available artists and compatible players]
What these services have done, at least south of the border, is
redefine what it means to get music online. Rather than pay forthe
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Canadian download services.
For those who still want to pay on a song-by‐song basis. there's still
the Puretracksca store, where you can buy songs for 99 cents to
about $1.20, depending on the artist. There are a lot of smaller
Canadian artists in the Puratracks selection, making it a good choice
for the patriot. though many of the songs are only available if you buy
the whole album online.

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the Roman empire where a similar game was played with a bent stick
used to hit a ball made of feathers. according the MSN’s Encarta online
[ca.encarta.msn.com].
The technology of the game has evolved along the way, from feather
stuffed balls and clubs made of wood to a full bag of irons and “woods"
without a trace of wood in sight.
Beyond the game lies the industry, an industry that according to Blake
Ponuick,VP of sales and marketing forGPS Industries, has seen its busi‑
ness model change drastically in the last decade.
'For years, all you had to dowas build a golf course and people would
come and spend a tonne of money,“ he says, but with seemingly more
courses than there are golfers. course owners have to compete for the
lucrative golfing demographics attention.
"Club houses are becoming a lot more lavish. There are huge banquet
facilities. they're catering to weddings, they're catering to corporate
retreats, they're trying to get business functions there with a major
push on tournaments,“ Ponuick says.
It's asentiment confirmed by Dave Cowan, general manager of Mill Run
Golf and Country Club [www.go|fmil|run.com) in Uxbridge, Ontario. "If
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you're not actively marketing. you're actually falling behind,” he says.
“The consumer is too wise and has too many choices to put up with sec‑
ond best.”
Technology touches the game in many ways from highly engineered
clubs and balls to virtual reality training aids like Canada's own Virtually
Perfect Golf [www.virtuallyperfectgolfcom].
Onthe course however, players are freed from the technology of every
day life fora few hours [six if you play anything like l do]. Cell phones
mysteriously run out oljuice before the round even starts and while the
laptop computer may have made the trip out of the office. that‘s only to
lend credibility to the business legitimacy of hitting the links.
GPS industries is a company attempting to change this scenario for the
better with its lnforemer, a hand-held or cart~mountcd device that offers
up all kinds of useful golf information using the global positioning sys‑
tem [GPS] and WiFi [802.11b] Internet connection.
Think of it as a highly interactive videogame. The front~end customer
experience is similar to a golf videogame with course and hole
overviews, distance to the pin and other info with which to make a shot.
Users can also order food and beverage service, request equipment and
in tournament settings. see where others are on the course. keep scam
and compare their game with other players.
Meanwhile in the back-end, golf course management are running a
kind of Tycoon game. keeping people moving through the course. gath~
ering usage data and sending out the beer cart to thirsty patrons,
among other things. The faster they move through the course and the
more they spend, the better.
Grant Gray. head professional at Mayfair Lakes Golf Club
(www.golfbc.com/courses/mayfair_Iakes] in Richmond. British
Columbia says that installing the Inforemer system has allowed the
course to further its relationships with golfers
"We send little messages to our members all the time because we can
see where everybody's at on the golf course I can say 'don't hit it In
the water’ just before they‘re about to tee-off you can have fun with
the customers.“
Ponuick explains that lnforemer is more than a distance judgment tool
for golfers. While players can see the position of other golfers on the
course, deciding whether to tee off or wait for the people ahead to play
through, they can also order food and beverage service orequipment on
the course. Ponuick describes a complete course management system
where everything from tee times and tournaments to the kitchen and
pro shop are all linked using the various software and hardware C'fm'
ponents of the system. .
“We've got a GPS food runner now. You can actually order burgers and .
beers right to yourtee. The order prints up right into our kitchen andthe
food is cooked and brought to you,‘ says Gray.
The tie that binds it all together isn't a tie at all; it's wireless.
Toinstall the system,the first step isto send out one of GPS Industries’ r '
own surveyors to plot the location for Wii-‘r repeaters and access points. i‘
The wireless network extends to the banquet and meeting militias i
as well as to surrounding houses and parks in some golf course '
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the overall landscape is plotted using GPS coordinates for recreation on
Banadian Inforemer courses
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the course. Richmond. British Columbia
The installation ofa full back-end management sgstem costs the course
about $230,00, with leasing options through the same companies that Mill Flun Golf and Country Club
lease golf carts in some cases, Ponuick sags. The idea beingthat this siz‑ Uxbridge. Ontario
able investment pags dividends with increased food and beverage sales,
faster and better organized plag time and on-screen advertising. Furry Creek Golf Club
There are a fair few companies offering GPS systems to golf courses Furry Creek. British Columbia
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and easily-installed hardware and by the fact that the company installs
and runs communications over a WiFi network. "We are the only BPS
company thus far that has deployed a WiFi network,” Ponuick says.
“Some of the other companies out there they do a two-way 900 MHz
radio. We've gone WiFi because it's the industry standard."
Using the 802.11b standard for communications means that neither
GPS Industries northe golfcourses installing its Inforemer system have
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to bother With licensing issues for specific bands on the communica‑
tions spectrum, Also, food orders for example are sent directly from the
Inforemer unit to the back~end management systems and into the
kitchen where they are prepared.
Meanwhile, golfers can check the score in a pro or college game by
way of a partnership with CBS Sportsline that provides real-time sports
scores, Ponuick says, As golfers make their way around the course,
they reach certain "trigger zones" that display the next hole overview,
throw up an advertisement or similar.
The system can also be expanded to incorporate existing back-end
point of sale or database software, towan says his existing software
supplier was able to work with GPS industries to incorporate extended
functionality into the Inforemer system "When the emergency call
comes in to the pro shop, it comes to every single f‘OS station, Jeiicess
[his existing software supplier] takes over anti searches the database
for anybody that's on the golf course and if there's a doctor listed, it
would send a message to the doctor s a y i n g 'we need help at this hole.“
The bottom line for golfers, Penuick. Cowan and Stay agree, is a
stronger value proposition. A more CfitClL‘ni game of golf. a gauge on
how farthey hit a drive off each tee accurate to Within about half a yard
[AG rn] how farto course hazards and tothe pin along with asimplified
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Kodak EasyShare picture viewer or printed when the device is next connected to the home PC. Users can
According to Kodak. the picture viewer is designed to be a simple also optimize pictures for storage and viewing on the Picture Viewer's
carry~along device that will fit in a purse so that primarily women 25-inch LCD screen; this allows for over 150 pictures on the device at
[Kodak's key focus at present, we're told] can always have pictures of screen resolution,
the family or from a recent vacation on hand. While the Kodak Picture Viewer offers nofunctionality beyond display‑
The device is certainly compact but even less demanding users are ing, deleting or earmarking images for printing or email, it does these
bound to run into the 32MB limit in on‘board storage if purchased as a things well.
means for off camera storage.
The Picture Viewer only works with MultiMedia Cards IMMC) and Zling Photo Wallet
Secure Digital [SD] memory cards, the latter being the type used in
Kodak's own and a number of other cameras The device can interface
with recently released Series 3 Kodak Picture Docks too.
In keeping with its primarily casual potential user base, it's easy to
use, especially relative to some of the other available options. That said,
with its core function being off-camera display as opposed to off-cam‑
era storage, we have to wonder why potential users wouldn't just pur‑
chase a still relatively easy to use PaImOnc colour PDA insteadr
Users can connect the Picture Viewer to a PC using the simple
EasyShare software suite to print and email photos with little user inter‑
action. The software will also import a list of contacts for storage on the
device. On the move, users can hit the familiar [to Kodak users] red
Share button and choose to print or email photos then have them sent

While the most barebones of photo wallets tested, the Zling Photo
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model] wrapped around a"rugged" 1-inch hard drive. with just two but‑
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MMC memory, a DCin to charge the internal battery and a USB port for
connection with a PC.
Users simply power the device up, stick a compatible memory card
into the appropriate slot and hold the "Copy" button for a second or so.
The Photo Wallet creates a new folder for every transfer based on the
storage type and order archived.
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with both slots and the internal hard drive accorded a drive letter, allow
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. SDcard storage IFthe field. the Photo Wallet accomplishes its task well.
The transfer is slow however. 117MB of data stored on a 128MB card
' took 3:28.whichtranslates to about 0.5? Mstec. The transfer process
' -s handseff. however. and once the Copy button is pressed. users can
‘ leave the device to do i t s thing. Once on the device. data can be trans.
ferred to PCat a still too slow SMB/sec.
The 168 version is of questionable value with 163 being a practical
l m i n i m u m card size for dSLR users. However. the 558 version easily
affords space for an entire vacation's worth of pictures or could be
transferred to a laptop and erased for die hard documenters.
At about $3? per GBfor the SGB version and with [F memory costing in
the region of $150 for a 168 card. the value proposition is good.
The unit is lightweight and easy to stash in a camera bag. but the
transfer from card to hard disk is still too long a process, photographers might enioy the fact that the device can show off snaps
on its fairly large screen. gives several slidcshow options like duration.
P-ZOOO Multimedia Storage Viewer transitions and accompanying mu5ical score from the few pie-loaded
More akin to a Portable Media Center than a photo wallet, the P-ZDUU is options. It can also print directly to compatible printers V i a USE
a large-screen. bright and attractive device. The device supports playback of M P } and MC files but can only play
While it could theoretically make the trek out for a day of shooting. il motion-JPEG and MPEG-4 format Vldl‘o While vrdeo is displayed at up to
would probably be more at home sitting in the hotel room waiting for the VGA quality at 30 frames per second. mus-c playback seems inordinate‑
memory cards to come to it. In short, it's heavy, making it not exactly Iy slow, taking several seconds to load up and begin playing a song. And
the most portable solution out there. At the same time, it offers the with no apparent way to use transferred m u s i c files as background
largest storage capacity of any we looked at in this roundup. musrc for slideshows, the usefulness of this function is questionable.
Upon inserting a compatible card and choosing to transfer files, users
create an album name using an awkward letter selection screen and Photo‘.’ault L][IS 5.
the directional pad or choose from the pre-Ioaded album name options Trust Sony to do things differently. for good or ill.
like children. travel. favourites, movies and music. it‘s a neat concept and sure to elicit more than a few questions as
The bright and sharp 212 ppi display is what sets the P-ZOUO apart. As users burn their vacation snaps in a cafe or similar, but with limited
W“ a method for storing images off-camera, the unit is overkill. PC-free storage and by introducing consumables into the equation. the
PhotoVault's usability is called into question. Not to make too fine a
point of it, but why not rust purchase a PC-based Cf] burner?
The Photot’ault uses the included ACadapter or a fairly small remov‑
able battery pack that takes four AAs.
Upon inserting a MemoryStick. the device recognizes the storage
media and offers to burn i t s contents to miniCD-R. Folders are created
on the disc according to when the pictures were transferred, and fol‑
ti":‑ lowing a successful burn. the disc is kept open for further recording.
It's fairly small and lightweight, is compatible with other cameras but
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versions. And it
It's t i m e to goto work as an investigator at the Las Vegas crime lab fea‑ shows. The inter‑
tured in one of TV's most popular shows, CSI. You'll be the rookie, but face is clearly
every major character from the series will assist you, each voiced by the designed for use
actual performer; William L. Petersen as Grissom, Jorja Fox as Sara Sidlo, with a mouse.
and Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows, Control with a
CSI for Xbox plays a lot like atypical adventure game, only you start with gamepad isn't too
a lot olthe tools you need to use ‐ fingerprinting kits, UVlights, tweezers bad. though hitting
to pick up traces of evidence, and so on. Then you head back to the lab to dilferent buttons to
get that evidence analyzed, and identify and compare DNA and finger‑ get to the various menus can sometimes be a chore. And don't expect it
prints. The game certainly feels authentic, allowing you to doa lot ofwhat to bethe besr looking game you've played, either. The graphics do the job
you see in the TVshow. You’ll even get to question suspects. and not much else.
CSI is actually two games in one: CSI, and CSI: Dark Motives, both PCcon‑ There are 10 cases, featuring crimes as gritty as anything you'll see on
the show. You can replay any olthe cases, and the higher you score [out
of 100 per cent], the more likely you will unlock concept art, trivia, and
behind the scenes stuff.
CSI is priced lower than most Xbox releases ‐ another plus. If you're a
fan ofthe show you'll be happy with this casual and very quick fix.
By Jason Maclsaac

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Abandonware is the Pr“ cases, rather than being pre‑
somewhat euphemistic sented with a download link,
and in some cases ques‑ users are given a “buy it here"

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tionable name for old link. A number of more recent
games that have, for all titles like Ubisoft's excellent
intents and purposes, Beyond Good 8: Evil are pre‑
been abandoned by the Com sented with extensive user
people and companies reviews and a fact short but
that created them. wrthotrt a download link, Wiilllil
Nintendo has proven is understandable and perhaps
time and time again that ‘ good, but misleading
it still values its older Games like A Roy and his [limit
intellectual property. The
rlEl.I(:Tl2 N i t : A R T S ' recently announced "emulator" that will allow PChardware to play games designed for
Nintendo Revolution, will other platforms.
give users access to every old game available from the Nintendo Astrictly enforced one download at a time policy attempts to stern the
Entertainment System to the Nintendo 64 online for a fee, of course, huge demand that rs likely put on the Underdog's servers. Also, to avoid
Meanwhile, older games are often re~released as retro game packs for having the site spidered and all content downloaded for posting else;
current generation systems. In short, there is still some cash to be where, users are required to input an exact character string in order to
wrung from older games. And while truly abandoned software does initiate each download
exist, it's not so much public domain as the people responsible for its With a huge selection of games and with a wealth of associated and
creation don't care to pursue any kind of action to halt its sharing. marginally related content, it's a good place to go. However, the "buy rt

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browser may be able to wrap his or her head around, it's best to know
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there are some true classics here as abandonware, and a fair few game links lead to a fact page, often
‐ games like Sierra’s Ouest with screenshots, and a description and [hopefully] a download link or
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Quest, Police Guest] and earliertitles in the infamous Leisure Suit Larry The fact that all content is searchable and then categorized by plat~
series and LucasAns' Maniac Mansion. forms is a nice touch. You can browse the RPG [role-playing game] cat‑
A few stinkers like the dismal Operation Body Count aside. the selec~ egory for example. then confine the results to display only games for
tion is such that a person who spent any appreciable amount oftime in the PC, NES or SNES. Other categories include the Sega Master System,
front of 3 [ISA or EGA screen will find something to smile about. Game Gear and Neo Geo.
Games can be browsed using easy navigation headings like Action, A nice touch is to give users a link on the game download page for the
Adventure and Sports and are afforded an editor's score and a commu‑ software sometimes required to play, specifically in the case of emu‑
nity score out of five. The archive is fully keyword searchable, but the lated console games.
best way to approach this site in this writer's opinion, is to browse
around until something strikes your fancy. , By Andrew Moore-Crispin

Home of the Other sites to check out:

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