Tuesday August 10th, 1999

• A demo of Battlezone 2 will be released in September. News from Voodoo Extreme

• 3 new screenshots of Gothic at GA-Source

• 4 new screenshots of Ultima: Ascension at Next Generation

• A review of the Monster Sound MX25 daughterboard for the Diamond Monster Sound MX300 at Thresh's FiringSquad.com

• The Half Life 1.0.1.3 patch has been delayed until the middle of this week. News from PC.IGN.COM

• 6 new screenshots of Gothic at Glide Underground

• 12 new screenshots of Homeworld at GameSpot UK

• A preview of the multiplayer in Homeworld at GameSpot UK

• A review of the Logitech SoundMan X2 Speaker System at Electric Games

• A preview of Black and White at Computer Games Online

• 9 new screenshots of Vampire: The Masquerade at Computer Games Online

• The new faster Aureal FTP site with resume support is now online. News from Skip

• A contest to guess the date Aureal Inc will release the Vortex 2 reference drivers with EAX support with an Aureal Vortex2 SuperQuad Digital PCI sound card and dual Voodoo 2 video cards at the prize. News from Allen

• A review of Heavy Gear II at GameZone Online. News from Renìe

Monday August 9th, 1999

• An interview with Franck Sauer, Gil Damoiseau and Lennie Moore about Outcast at 3D Sound Surge. News from Mark

• A preview of Homeworld at RIVA 3D. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Heavy Gear II at Multi-Player Online Gaming. News from AGN3D

• 4 new screenshots of Soldier of Fortune at 3D Unlimited

• 15 new screenshots of Soldier of Fortune at Computer Games Online

• KCplus 0.60 (212KB) at Really Effective Software. KCplus provides hotkey support for adjusting the volume mixer controls of Windows 9x. News from Paul

• The Aureal FTP mirror had no be removed as it was using too much bandwidth

Sunday August 8th, 1999

• A review of Star Wars: Episode I Racer at BarrysWorld. News from Voodoo Extreme

• 5 new screenshots of Drakan: Order of the Flame at Gone Gold. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of the Bedwin BW-2000 Flat Panel Speakers at Speedy 3D. News from AGN Hardware

• A review of the Diamond Monster Sound MX300 at 3D Alpha. News from AGN Hardware

• A preview of Prince of Persia 3D at GameSpot

• A 1.1 patch (2.7MB) for the demo of Venom which adds Aureal A3D support at 3DFILES.COM

Saturday August 7th, 1999

• A demo (60MB) of FreeSpace 2 is available at Volition

• A review of Dungeon Keeper II at Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Mortyr 2093 - 1944 at Gameunit.com. News from AGN3D

• 24 new screenshots of at PC Arena Online. News from AGN3D

• 2 new screenshots of Summoner at GA-Source

• An interview with Franck Sauer about Outcast at sharky extreme

• Drakan: Order of the Flame has gone gold. News from PC.IGN.COM

• An updated preview of System Shock 2 at PC.IGN.COM

• A preview of Half-Life: Opposing Force at GameSpot UK

• A review of Dungeon Keeper II at Gamezilla!

• A review of Dungeon Keeper II on Gamespot TV. Requires Realplayer

• A short interview with Tim Sweeney about Unreal Tournament at GameFan Online

• A review of Requiem: Avening Angel at Gamearena.net

• A review of Warzone 2100 at Gamearena.net

• A demo (40MB) of Revenant at 3DFILES.COM

• A 1.8 patch (783KB) for StarSiege Tribes at 3DFILES.COM

• Ask Aureal mentions Aureal have removed the Vortex 1/2 reference drivers from their FTP site while it is been upgraded to provide more bandwidth and support resume. Use the mirror in the meantime.

• The Vortex 1 Windows Windows NT4 1.17.01 reference drivers and Vortex 2 Windows NT4 2.04.06 reference drivers are now mirrored

• New Vortex 1 Windows Windows NT4 1.17.01 reference drivers are availabe at 3D Sales Limited. Changes are:
  -Fixed uninstall problem which stopped new drivers been installed
  -Fixed WHQL issues

• New Vortex 2 Windows NT4 2.04.06 reference drivers are available are available at 3D Sales Limited. Changes are
  -Support for more sound card codecs
  -Fixed Wave and MIDI playback to output 2
  -Fixed uninstall problem which stopped new drivers been installed
  -Fixed WHQL issues

Friday August 6th, 1999

• Aureal Inc and 3D Sales Limited will be at the ECTS show in Europe at stand GL410 on the upper floor of the main halls. They will be previewing their new speakers and hopefully making some game announcements. News from Roy

• 2 new video clips of Messiah at Voodoo Extreme

• A list of changes in the upcoming 1.0.1.3 patch for Half-Life at Planetfortress. News from AGN3D

• A preview of the multiplayer in Drakan: Order of the Flame at Planet Drakan. News from AGN3D

• 6 new screenshots of The Wheel Of Time at The Shugashack. News from 3DNews.Net

• 2 new screenshots of Prince of Persia 3D at GA-Source

• A preview of Homeworld at Gaming Age

• A preview of Homeworld at Game Wire.Org

• A review of Dungeon Keeper II at Game Post

• An interview with Kenn Hoekstra about Soldier of Fortune at GameFan Online

• An interview with Pancho Eekels about Unreal Tournament at 3D Unlimited

• A comparsion of the Aureal Vortex2 SuperQuad Digital PCI and Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live at Ars Technica. News from Julian

Thursday August 5th, 1999

• Skip McIIvaine from Aureal Inc made an interesting post on the news groups about future support options they plan to offer and future projects.

• If you increase the s_refdelay values in the Quake 2 based A3D 2.0 games (Half-Life, Heretic II and SiN) to between 8 - 10 it will sound much cooler. News from Skip

• An interview with Duncan from Surreal Software about Drakan: Order of the Flame at Planet Drakan. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Descent 3 at GamePro.com. News from Voodoo Extreme

• An interview with Kevin Lambert about Sanity at Exxtreme3D. News from AGN3D

• A review of the Unreal Level Pack: The Return To Na Pali at GamePrix.com. News from AGN3D

• A review of the Sonigistix Monsoon MM-1000 speakers at AnandTech

• A video clip of Messiah at GA-Source

• A preview of Half-Life: Opposing Force at Next Generation

• A preview of Homeworld at Thresh's FiringSquad.com

• A preview of Black and White at GamePen

• A new screenshot of System Shock 2 at The Adrenaline Vault

• A 1.06B patch (3MB) for Warzone 2100 at 3DFILES.COM

• A video clip (38.8MB) of Vampire: The Masquerade at 3DFILES.COM

• The new Aureal A3D 2.0 demos (26.26MB) which were included with the complete Vortex 2 Windows 9x 4.06.2035 reference drivers file (33MB) are now mirrored

Wednesday August 4th, 1999

• Miles Sound System 5.5 by Rad Games Tools will also support Aureal A3D 2.0. News from Vortex of Sound

• A preview of Ultima: Ascension at PC Zone. News from Voodoo Extreme

• 3 new screenshots of Spec Ops2: Green Berets at SpecForce. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Descent 3 at 3D Action Planet. News from AGN3D

• A review of the Sony MDR-NC5 Noise Canceling Headphones at AbsolutePC. News from AGN Hardware

• An interview with Jarrod Showers about Soldier of Fortune at Quake2000.net. News from 3DNews.Net

• An interview with John E. Williamson about Spec Ops2: Green Berets at GA-Source

• A comparison of the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live and Vortex 2 based sound card at PC Paradox

• Aureal Inc announced their financial results for the second quarter 1999. Full details are available in the press release

• A preview of Prince of Persia 3D at PC Gamer Online

• 11 new screenshots of Half-Life: Opposing Force at PC Gamer Online

• A preview of Revenant at Gamecenter

• A demo of Prince of Persia 3D will be released August 23rd and the game will ship on September 19th. News from The Adrenaline Vault

• The Vortex 2 Windows9x 4.06.2035 reference drivers are now mirrored

• New 2 speaker and 4 speaker benchmarks of DirectSound and DirectSound3D CPU usage in Audio WinBench 99 with the new Vortex 2 Windows 9x 2035 reference drivers are available

• The Vortex 2 Windows9x 4.06.2035 reference drivers include an older Aureal A3D driver (2.21) so make sure you install the Aureal A3D 2.22 driver again after too.

• New Vortex 2 Windows9x 4.06.2035 reference drivers (7.65MB) are available at Aureal Inc. News from Skip. Changes are:
  - Added support for WinDVD Software DVD Player
   - Added S/PDIF autodetect feature.
   - Fixed an issue that caused a number of DirectSound3D and A3D games to crash
   - Fixed some distortion on output
   - Fixed some issues relating to Wavetracing Reflections
   - Fixed some issues relating to Flatland Rover
   - Fixed a Graphic EQ issue
   - Fixed an issue with the A3D control panel
   - Fixed a memory leak in the direct sound driver
   - Normalized the volume between front and rear speakers

Tuesday August 3rd, 1999

• Roy Taylor from 3D Sales Limited mentioned on their message board that the Vortex 2 4.06.2035 reference driver should be available in the next 24 hours. I except Aureal Inc will mostly likely post them very soon too.

• An interview with Greg Zeschuk about MDK2 at IPlayGames. News from Voodoo Extreme

• An interview with Alex Redman about Extreme Wing Chun VR at UnrealEngine.com. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Blood II Mission Pack: Nightmare Levels at GameSpot. News from AGN3D

• Another review of Star Wars- Episode I The Phantom Menace at GameSpot. News from AGN3D

• An interview with James Schmalz about Unreal Tournament at AGN3D

• A review of the Cambridge Soundworks FPS 2000 Digital Speaker System at Alive. News from AGN Hardware

• 2 new screenshots of Soldier of Fortune at Pels Interactive. News from 3DNews.Net

• A review of Star Wars: Episode I Racer at 3D Alpha. News from HPC Hardware Guide

• A review of Heavy Gear II at Electric Games

• An interview with Greg Zeschuk about MDK2 at Before It's Done

• An interview with Matthew Powers about Slave Zero at XtremeNetwork.com

• An interview with Mike Nichols about Drakan: Order of the Flame at 10 Questions With SamHell

• A demo of Revenant will be released on August 9th. News from Computer Games Online

• A video clip (23MB) of Prince of Persia 3D at 3DFILES.COM

• A review of Outcast at Gamers Central. News from Chaos

Monday August 2nd, 1999

• The demo of System Shock 2 includes DirectSound3D support. News from 3D Sound Surge

• Vital Engine ZL by Roman Lut and Sergey Zabaryansky supports Aureal A3D and DirectSound3D. News from Vortex of Sound

• There a new screenshot of Drakan: Order of the Flame at Drakan.Net. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of MechWarrior 3 at Gamers' Crypt. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A new screenshot of Slave Zero at GA-Source

• 12 new screenshots of Drakan: Order of the Flame at Tweak3D

Sunday August 1st, 1999

• 2 new screenshots of Messiah at Voodoo Extreme

• 16 new screenshots of System Shock 2 at Tweak3D

• A new patch will be released for Half-Life next week to fix some problem releated to bots. News from AGN3D

• An interview with Bill Roper from Blizzard Entertainment about Diablo 2 at Universal Gaming Network  

• 16 new screenshots of Homeworld at Planet RIVA

• Another interview with Harvey Smith about Deus Ex at 3D Unlimited

• Diablo 2 by Blizzard Entertainment will support Aureal A3D. News from Skip

• Gulf War: Operation Desert Hammer by The 3DO Company will support Aureal A3D. News from Skip

• Tread Marks by Longbow Digital Arts will support Aureal A3D 2.0. News from Skip

• Yager by Yager will also support Aureal A3D. News from Skip

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