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OpenAL was originally developed in 2000 by Loki Software to help them in their business of porting Windows games to Linux. [3] After the demise of Loki, the project was maintained for a time by the free software/open source community, and implemented on NVIDIA nForce sound cards and motherboards.
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina.The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland.
Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021. It succeeded Windows 10 (2015) and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new Windows 11 system requirements.
Outages were experienced worldwide, [2] [39] [40] reflecting the wide use of Microsoft Windows and CrowdStrike software by global corporations in numerous business sectors. [41] At the time of the incident, CrowdStrike said it had more than 24,000 customers, [ 42 ] including nearly 60% of Fortune 500 companies and more than half of the Fortune ...
Maximum PC gave Windows 7 a rating of 9 out of 10 and called Windows 7 a "massive leap forward" in usability and security, and praised the new Taskbar as "worth the price of admission alone." [177] PC World called Windows 7 a "worthy successor" to Windows XP and said that speed benchmarks showed Windows 7 to be slightly faster than Windows ...
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards for PC (including Sound Blaster 16, AdLib Gold 1000 and AWE32) Silicon-gate CMOS chip [55] [35] [63] Yamaha DS1001 (Konami VRC7) 1990 12 6 2 Famicom cartridge Lagrange Point: Modified derivative of Yamaha YM2413 (OPLL) [77] Yamaha YMF271 (a.k.a. OPX) 1993 36 18 4 12 additional PCM channels Yamaha YMF278 (a ...
Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
The Epic Games Store is a storefront for games available via the web and built into Epic Games' launcher application. Both web and application allow players to purchase games, while through the launcher the player can install and keep their games up to date.