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Your article "Video Games Get Trashed" [TECHNOLOGY, March 15] creates the false impression that Connectix Virtual Games Station exacerbates piracy problems in the video-game-console market. CVGS contains technology that is designed to discriminate between legitimate PlayStation CDs and illegal copies. Your article also overlooked the compelling legitimate consumer benefit of our product: CVGS enables you to play many popular PlayStation games on a Macintosh computer. Now PlayStation owners have new choices of where they can play their games, and Macintosh owners have more games to choose from. This increased consumer choice is a far more important social effect...
Meanwhile, Sony encountered an emulator nightmare of its own--only this time the perpetrator was another large software firm. Connectix in January came out with Virtual Game Station, which allowed Macintosh owners to play Sony video games for a mere $50. Macheads snapped up a whopping $3 million worth over three weeks. Sony promptly sued Connectix, which denies any wrongdoing. Last month a judge refused to block shipment of the software while the case is pending. Though it's clearly unlawful to sell or download pirated video games, it remains unclear whether the same strictures apply to emulator software...
...Package, which bundles a smart collection of software with a small, computer-top video camera. Intel's product is especially worth considering if you're also in the market for a cheap, Net-based video telephone, which allows you to talk to (and see) other users. I also liked Connectix's golf ball-size, $129 QuickCam...
That isn't to say memory compression itself is a pipe dream. On the contrary, the technology is real, and Syncronys is not the only company to have cashed in on its appeal. But neither of SoftRAM 95's top competitors--Connectix's RAM Doubler and Quarterdeck's MagnaRAM2--can boast sales approaching SoftRAM 95's 650,000 copies. And while some have complained about the speed of the other products, neither has been targeted for the kind of virulent attacks mounted against SoftRAM...
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