Connectix Corporation Launches Promotion for Connectix Virtual Game Station.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000
NEWS: Connectix Corporation Launches Promotion for Connectix
Virtual Game Station
-- Each specially marked box of Connectix Virtual Game
Station includes a free game
-- Award-winning video game emulation product for
Macintosh and Windows(R)
-- Play many popular PlayStation(R) games on your Mac
or PC
-- Frees PlayStation game players from the TV
Connectix Virtual Game Station gives you a hassle-free
way to play Sony PlayStation games on your Mac or Windows
PC. Installation is no different than any other
application. With Connectix Virtual Game Station, your
computer gives you easy access to over 200 recommended
games.
PRODUCT: The Connectix Virtual Game Station product line frees the
game player from the TV allowing Mac and Windows users to
Play PlayStation games when and where they please.
FEATURES:
-- Play Sony PlayStation games on your Mac or Windows PC
-- Currently, over 200 games are on the recommended games
list. Check www.virtualgamestation.com for the up to
date list.
-- Supports keyboards and input devices such as game pads
and joysticks
-- Allows users to define the functions associated with the
various buttons and keys on their input device
-- Supports two player games when the computer is equipped
with two input devices
-- Save game progress just like a PlayStation with virtual
Memory Card feature
PROMOTION: For a limited time specially marked boxes of Connectix
Virtual Game Station 1.4 will include a free game.
BUY: Customers can purchase the Connectix Virtual Game Station
version 1.4 starting June 5, 2000 through the Connectix
online store (www.connectix.com). It will be widely
available at retail stores, mail order catalogs, and
online stores where Macintosh or Windows products are
sold.
FREE UPDATE: Users of previous versions of Connectix Virtual Game
Station can access a free updater at
www.virtualgamestation.com.
PRICE: Estimated street price for Virtual Game Station
version 1.4 is $49
PR CONTACT: Nancy K. Smith, Candelori Communications,
408/774-3414 x237, nancysmith@candelori.com
About Connectix Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company, noted for having released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple Computer incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they become popular. Corporation: Founded in 1988 and based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Connectix is a leader in low cost, high-performance Adj. 1. high-performance - modified to give superior performance; "a high-performance car" superior - of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" compatibility software, originally entering the market with Virtual, a groundbreaking Macintosh-based product that provided virtual memory. The ever-popular RAM Doubler A software technique that compresses the contents of memory, thereby doubling (more or less) its available capacity. and Speed Doubler Refers to hardware or software that doubles the speed of its predecessor. For example, Intel's earlier Speed Doubler was the name given to the technology that allowed the clock speed to be doubled on its 486 DX2 chips. products followed in 1994 and 1995, respectively. Also in 1995, Connectix introduced the industry's first tethered Attached to a data or power source by wire or fiber. Contrast with untethered. digital camera, QuickCam Quickcam is a line of webcam video camera products from Logitech. The Quickcam was developed by Connectix in 1995 and was the first widely marketed webcam-like device, although its original advertising did not use the term "webcam" or refer to the World Wide Web, then in its for PCs and Macintoshes, producing more than one million units before selling the hardware business to Logitech in September of 1998. Connectix continues to develop innovative, award-winning products that allow computer users to use software and hardware products from a variety of platforms. In 1999, the company again broke the platform barrier by launching Connectix Virtual Game Station The Virtual Game Station (VGS) was an emulator by Connectix that allows Sony PlayStation games to be played on a computer. It was first released for the Macintosh, in 1999. VGS was created by Aaron Giles. , a software product that allows consumers to run many popular Sony PlayStation Sony Playstation - Playstation games on their personal computers. For more information on Virtual PC and other Connectix products, please visit their web site at http://www.connectix.com/. Note to Editors: Connectix, the Connectix logo, and Connectix Virtual PC are trademarks of Connectix Corporation. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. |
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