Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PC: Mike used to be called Barney, and when he was, he was also dating a friend of mine, pretty lady. I have a postcard from Albuquerque that looks like Scott. I like them, and I also like the Magic Number. Playing with them will be mighty...
...privacy advocates, and long dreaded by groups battling cyber-evils such as web-based child-porn rings. How it works: Surfers who purchase the $50 software are given five digital aliases. While web sites can normally trace a user's travel on the Net directly to a specific PC, with the aliases, your travel is linked to nothing but a number, and Zero-Knowledge keeps no records of who is using those numbers...
...course, it's these guys' jobs to shoot at each other. Now that coding for the PC version of Quake III is finished--it wrapped up at 4:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving day--all that's left is tweaking for Mac and Linux versions, and plenty of play testing. Last week the only thing you could hear in Suite 666 was resounding cries of "Dammit, get out of the way!" and "I've picked up the shotgun. I'll cover you!" Carmack, described reverentially by a team member as "an evil genius," is not playing. He's already hard...
...THEME PARK: Ever wanted to own Disneyland or a Six Flags? Now you can. In the world-creating tradition of the classic Sim City, this PC game lets you build and road-test all kinds of roller-coaster rides. The goal: to make the park's patrons as happy as possible. Do it right and you'll feel as giddy as a kid with a free-ride pass...