MacWEEK.com Gets Inside Story on Connectix VGS for Windows; Controversial Emulator of Sony PlayStation Games Currently Available for Macs Only.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1999--Today MacWEEK.com reported that San Mateo-based Connectix Corp. is continuing to develop a Windows version of Virtual Game Station despite a temporary restraining order granted Thursday to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., maker of the Sony PlayStation.

The current version of the $50 software emulator is available only for the Macintosh.

Connectix CEO Roy McDonald told MacWEEK.com that Sony had demanded that Connectix suspend all development of a forthcoming Windows version of the PlayStation emulator. Foster City, Calif.-based Sony also asked that Connectix hand over all work in progress on the project and that it cancel all future work on the Windows version.

"Connectix's development of Virtual Game Station for Windows is a big deal," says Matthew Rothenberg, director of editorial content for MacWEEK.com. "The Mac version has been well received by Mac users everywhere, so the prospect of a Windows counterpart is equally exciting for the wider PC market."

For more information, the story can be found on MacWEEK.com at http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/03/07/connectix.html

For related news on MacWEEK.com, see "Connectix unfazed by Sony suit" at http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/01/24/connectix2.html

And "Connectix fights back with upgrades" at http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/01/24/connectix.html

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