MediaPortal 1.0 Released

MedialPortal 1.0, a GPL licensed Media Centre alternative that has been five years in development, has been released for Windows XP, MCE2005 or Vista. The final release has ironed out a number of bugs in the earlier release candidates, but functionally, little has changed. MediaPortal plays DVDs and records TV programmes via DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S and analog TV. It supports TV cards with multiple tuners and uses a electronic programme guide based on the XMLtv project. The application can also play... 

Nuclear Subs Using Windows XP

The Royal Navy and BAE Systems have announced their implementation of ‘Windows for Submarines’ is complete ahead of schedule. Windows boxes on Ethernet LANs are now in control of the UK’s nuclear-propelled and nuclear-armed warship fleet. The programme is called Submarine Command System Next Generation (SMCS NG), and uses varying numbers of standard multifunction consoles with two LCD screens, hooked up on an internal Ethernet network installed on each sub. Initial reports as the... 

Windows 7 – DirectX 10 Via CPU

Windows 7’s new WARP system can run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU, doing away with the need for a hardware 3D accelerator in some circumstances It turns out that Intel isn’t the only company that’s looking at performing Direct3D in software; Microsoft has just announced that it’s also planning to introduce a new feature called WARP in Windows 7 that allows you to run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU. In what could be seen as an easy answer to the Vista-capable debacle, where there was some confusion...