New Products for January 2006

By BYTE.com Editors

January 5, 2006

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TransGaming Technologies has launched SwiftShader, a software-based rendering tool that enables the use of 3D graphics in games and applications, without the need fo dedicated graphics hardware. SwiftShader supports both Pixel and Vertex Shaders. Direct3D. 8 and Direct3D 9 compatible APIs are available , and OpenGL-compatible APIs are also under development. Vertex Shader 1.1 and Pixel Shader 1.4 features are currently supported. The company claims that SwiftShader can perform over 50 times faster than Microsoft's Direct3D Reference Rasterizer in tests with sample applications. SwiftShader is currently available for x86 CPUs with Intel's SSE multimedia instruction set extensions. SwiftShader runs on Microsoft Windows 98 and higher, and on Linux through TransGaming's Cedega portability technology.
TransGaming Technologies Inc.
55 Byward Market, 2nd floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9C3 Canada
http://www.transgaming.com/

Aonix has released the Version 8.2 of its ObjectAda for Windows development environment. In addition to supporting an Eclipse-based development environment, ObjectAda for Windows integrates current Microsoft platform improvements for compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. ObjectAda for Windows includes a Java-call interface, enabling Java applications to be called from an Ada program. ObjectAda for Windows 8.2 includes the comprehensive Ada libraries needed for calling Windows Win32 and the Visual C++ .NET 2003 MFC interfaces from application source code written in Ada. In ObjectAda for Windows, these Ada binding libraries are fully compatible with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 tools and libraries.
Aonix North America, Inc.
5930 Cornerstone Court West, Suite 250
San Diego, CA 92121
858-457-2700
http://www.aonix.com/

Systinet has announced Version 6.0 of its Systinet Server family for creating Java and C++ Web services. Systinet Server for Java 6.0

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