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Bullfrog has released the 1.70 patch for Dungeon Keeper 2.

What´s new?

* Added a new creature - ´The Maiden´.
* Added the ´Jack-In-The-Box´ Trap.
* Added ´Frosty´s Realm´ a new 2 player map. Multiplayer and Skirmish 4 player map.
* Added ´Frosty´s Lair´ a new 3 player map. Multiplayer and Skirmish.
* Added ´Frosty´s Castle´ a new 4 player map. Multiplayer and Skirmish.
* Added ´Mercenary Portals´ these Portals allow you to get hero creatures in the levels that support them (Frosty´s Realm, Frosty´s Lair and Frosty´s Castle).
* Added ´EMBM´ Bump Mapping for G400´s. This effect has been added onto Lava and Water in the game.
* Added ´My Pet Dungeon 7´ to the update.
* Added Windows 2000 support to DK2.
* Altered Balance of Elite Creatures so that the Elites are now much tougher.
* Altered AI on some skirmish maps to improve Keepers abilities.
* Fixed - Elite creatures are now not turned into their normal counterparts after saving/loading.
* Fixed - You now do not become stuck if you press ESCAPE in first person.
* Fixed - Wizards do not fall into the Temple.
* Imps now disappear when their Mana reaches zero.
* Imps now perform better on Skirmish maps.
* Shrinking Princes problem on Level 19 fixed.
* Creatures in the combat pit now get hungry.
* Sniveller is not the only rating in multiplayer.
* It is now possible to have spaces in a savename when saving at the end of a level.
* You can now slap Horny again to cancel him once cast.

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Adaptec has released new Windows 2000 1.00b drivers for their Ultra SCSI, Ultra 2 SCSI and Ultra 160 SCSI cards. Thanks Snoop.

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Since its release early this year, the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 product line has continued to win widespread customer and industry support.

Early this week at PC Expo 2000, Microsoft announced that it expected sales of the Windows 2000 operating system license to top 3 million copies by today. Microsoft has also exceeded its goal of seeing at least 100 applications receive "Certified for Windows" approval, and has trained more than 250,000 IT professionals to date on the platform. And with the expected summer release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 1, Microsoft anticipates a surge in the number of Windows 2000 deployments.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-042 announces the availability of a patch that eliminates a vulnerability in an ActiveX control that ships with Microsoft:registered: Internet Explorer.

What's the scope of the vulnerability?

This is a denial of service vulnerability. It could allow a malicious web site operator to overwrite a file on the computer of a visiting user. If certain system files on the computer were overwritten, it could render the visitor´s computer unusable.
The vulnerability could only be used to overwrite a file as a means of preventing it from operating - it could not be used to replace an executable file with new code of the malicious web site operator´s choice. If the malicious user's web site were running in a Security Zone in which ActiveX controls are not allowed to run, the vulnerability could not be exploited.

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Megahertz madness continues next month when Intel releases a 1.13-GHz Pentium III on July 31.

The new chip, likely one of the last versions of the Pentium III for desktop systems, will mark yet another milestone in the escalating performance war between Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices.

Since last August when AMD released its Athlon processor, the two companies have competed for the right to the chip speed crown. That trophy has changed hands a number of times.

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Japanese/German localizations of the Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 release candidate are now available. SP1 betatesters can download the localizations from the NTBeta site.

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Canon has released new PCL5e/6 printer drivers for the GP160F fax machine.

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Building and running an e-commerce site can be extremely complicated.

To make it easier, Microsoft this week unveiled Microsoft:registered: Commerce Server 2000, a major upgrade of Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition that includes broad new functionality for personalization, user and catalog management and sophisticated business analytics. Commerce Server 2000 is scheduled to be available this fall, and users can register now to test and evaluate the beta version. Microsoft also announced strong industry support for Commerce Server 2000 in the form of products that build on and tightly integrate with its content management and business analytics capabilities.

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