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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 26, 1994

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                10 the staw5i and St fwd s computers a fit. Fat 4wttrldw of to from the chips Rok   Public thurs of computer piracy cot $9,7 billion Quarter from  "  a awol nation rept setting 1,100 Ter pm Rani ski in 1w. Despite the one year decline the loss sizable eclipsing in Tome Sifea Revenue from sales. For instance fn1993, $6.8 billion was made in software tales in North America said association spokeswoman Terri Chiodi the most frequent forms of piracy Are when a company buys one program and makes it available through network of computers copies the program or passes the program soothers Childs said. Compaq has announced advances to its top line of personal computer aimed chiefly at businesses. The models in a Ine called Espro Al will use the latest High Speed 486 and pentium microprocessors from Intel  has improved some of the technical and Ergo Nom designs from its previous High end line called desk pro m. Some of the new computers will have room to be upgraded to the next Intel Chip code named p6, which i expected to be ready in mid to late 1995. The Compaq machines will Bethe first to be capable of using the More powerful p6. From wire reports enter a new millennium multimedia game developers target 18 to 55-year-Olds by Drew new York in the fur Northern reach of the City in a Plain in Csc building Between Broadway and the Hudson River a dozen men and women Are creating a glittering and oddly disturbing  is the world of Dieter Haas a Sar Donic 35-year-old German Art critic of a heed Ahmad a suave and worldly saudi Developer Renate Antonilli a Beautiful italian filmmaker Takeshi Mori a 25-year-old japanese cyberpunk entrepreneur. And  and his associates and the world they inhabit Alt exist inside computers. They come to you or is it bet Ter to say you go to visit them through the electronic Alchemy of cd rom the multimedia that seems Tobe and soon probably will be eve  Dieter and his pals Are not Flat insubstantial creatures not Pac Man writ larger and better. When Dieter moves through his world lights an shadows play across his face. When he smiles your flesh creeps. It in t so much that be merely looks human Al though he does to a remarkable  to scary because he seems shrewd ruthless a bit cruet possibly Vit Yoni Koenig helped make Dieter what be to. Koenig is Lead animator at eks Oion Joe the company that is creating us world that is Labouring to bring if you look to a to my Huite. Albi i a  Jet Luw my 9uimki to fit tip turf i l off Marti Toronto Sylv Booton thing tar Fety derived from books the Tiung com behind Tun act sri w that a people a by the co of Siers of their Csc area a get Tike to Haw some fun a tic beat too. Up to four can play Noih Kamwai Abc to. Yob can be Dieter if you Chr any of fix Osiier data racer. Hie Gune scenario is built Aromin Art it to Market this Spring. If All goes a planned you will be Able to buy in of in your local computer store look for Box labelled millennium auction. Millennium auction is a compute game. Its creators Hope that it is differ ent enough to succeed in a marketplace that is awash in computer game it is not an action game aimed at 12-year-Olds, nor a Battle simulator nor a War gamer s strategy game its analogs in the no electronic world Are those Board games that for years have held the interest of adolescent or Fetter audiences clue for one monopoly or trivial Pursuit for others. Lonnie Stein a publishing Industry fugitive who joined eidolon last december As marketing director says millennium auction b aiming for an 18 to 55-year-old audience if you look at Sega the games Are aimed at adolescents Stein says it s shoot pm up stuff a lot of hand Eye co ordination. It s about scoring Points. It Smale oriented. The whole video game the object of the Gaspe is to buy sell High and Cook oat wads debt Gest Fortune Soose of Tyse items of for fads Are classic works by the i Faes of both it h and Degas others Sis see the game a set in the near but different fut aare Are Inch artefacts As president Ceafia t saxophone and the Jim no in minutes of watergate tape to get smart m be game you and your competitors the computer will fill in to make a foursome packing Starac ten not taken by the human players can wander through the Gairy tit King eavesdropping on cower Sariotis Reading newspapers watching television ifs ten ing to the radio checking a data base for the latest hot news in die Are Market. Any of these activities May Feria you Ches a radio Shew May speak of a rash of fake Renaissance p Ross Perot yes he s stil Arras of aim that neither a Tow Cor his it sect president Hillary Aifoi could realty play the sax a hint from a Ece time player and big time loser read file newspaper carefully and listen up when the radio s on. The clues Are Subtle. Salvadoran conservative sweeps to presidency san Salvador Al Salvador a conservative Armando Calderon so captured a landslide Victory Over his leftist presidential opponent a former Leader of the rebel movement that fought a 12-year civil War. Radio and television reports late Sun Day showed Calderon Sot racking of about twice As Many votes As Ruben Zamora who conceded about three boors after the polls closed. With about 20 percent of precinct reporting. Calderon sol had about 66 percent of the vote televised reports from polling stations said. Zamora s leftist coalition trailed wit about 33 percent. Zamora s coalition of three leftist parties includes the a Rabudo Mart National liberation front the former guerrilla organization be came a Legal political party when use1992 peace treaty ended Al Saka or a 12-year civil War. Zamora bad been a Lender of the treat s pols Tkal Wing about 48 percent of eligible voters went to the polls Early returns showed. Poll watchers said voting problem that hindered an earlier round of ballot fag were fewer Seves presidential candidates Raa in a cards 20 election but none won an a Potete majority. Calder to Sot out Polk Zahoora by about a 2-Fo-l ratio is that election but Tell just abort of the 50 percent plus on needed to win Rwanda radio eggs on killers pid tsp trucks and Micro buses draped Wita party flags cruised the streets to take voters to the polls sunday. The government also provided free bes transport atom. Coa Baioa members complained that Atco cars from Calcis r on so a repo Ticao Al Nice or Arena were i property trying to a flue be Vot triumphant Armando Calderon so shows Bis inked i Irmo to the Media after voting to St taday a presidential election. Ers and there were Mutual charges of campaigning at or near voting centers thousands of Arena supporters waited at the International Fairgrounds for Calderon sol to vote trading screamed insults with coalition badder until he arrived. Rabin in Russia to discuss israeli Plo snags Nairobi Kenya a rebels and government forces dashed in heavy artillery duels Loverni gift a die ital Kigali official said monday a r station urged Militta to step up to being of civilians about 170 Hospital Pati Eata were slaughtered sunday m the Southern City of Butare and the United Natkus was getting disturbing reports of other massacres in the Countryside u3f, specs eur Man Abdul Kabia said radio relm is calling Oft militias to step up the killing of evil Laos he said a a Telephone interview front egg like said the radio was controlled by few p Liikal parties of the majority of to tribe an estimated 160,606 people a been killed since a suspicious april Pine crash killed the presidents of Rwanda and neighbouring bunk set and triggered a new wave of ethnic Ting Between the huts and Tutsi Effort to open Alia As end the car nage collapsed sunday when the fevers ment delegation failed to reach Arusta Tanzania Moscow a Lirah Pri Rae minister Yitzhak Rabin be Gas 2 fsr Day visit to Russia on monday by meet ing with his russian county pan v Dottor Chernomyrdin to re in the Middle Eastern peace process. Rabin s visit the first a an. Lulea prime minister to Post so it r.u.2, also was to include meetings. The Peri Dent Boris Yeltsin and p a i it members. The talks Ere scheduled to of Jcu i cd ways to Advance the israeli Plo negotiations on establishing Pak Tel Sims j Onomy a the israeli occupied Xixi a and the West   of air a Cord. Ties  it a sept. 1.3 a of now Moscow is seeking to restore its influence in the Middle East a role that with has declined since the collapse of the ifidu.de4 tix soviet Union in 1991 Ard the disruption of cooperation is cd be of relations with 115 traditional Arab a chars agriculture 2&d lit be the itar Tati 2�lid to in a Lerui Pierri on sunday a Reed for ciotto j i icel and run Rte a ii a mid die Etc turn it � los. A Dicky a it Rumias is the Region As belonging to in Zatur a sphere of interests and Alio vie i it As an important  for  tales mock s.   Laid . As pin of this d a  Effort for Ein Iii inter   Turp rive visit to Krasl Uit or -.r. Hile Ura Iii reacted cd a to h. Idea i for the peace proce j p jewish Forf Alfones near Prague defaced Prague a a jewish cemetery in Ravia was desecrated when tombstones were Daffee a with swastikas a  Ica cer . According to the report. 2 ton c  
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