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To: Alski who wrote (2588)	3/17/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: Dennis Kern	Respond to of 4149

Acclaim and Microsoft Team Up for Sega Dreamcast-TM Development; Acclaim Selects Microsoft Windows-TM CE for Upcoming Sega Dreamcast Title GLEN COVE, N.Y. (March 17) BUSINESS WIRE -MARCH 17, 1999--Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKLM), a leading worldwide interactive entertainment company, today announced that it is working closely with Microsoft Corp. to use the Microsoft Window CE operating system for the development of an upcoming Sega Dreamcast(TM) title. The collaboration will take advantage of the powerful technological capabilities of the Windows CE development toolkit for the Sega Dreamcast. "Windows CE has made it very easy for Acclaim to get title development underway for Sega Dreamcast," said Craig Galley, executive technical director at Acclaim. "Using the Windows CE Toolkit for Sega Dreamcast, we were able to bring one of our key game engines developed with Win32 and DirectX APIs over to the Sega Dreamcast platform and get title development underway within the space of a month." Windows CE for Sega Dreamcast is a full-featured, full-service operating system whose specific optimizations for game development on Sega Dreamcast hardware make it a sound choice for serious, high-performance game development. The size and performance of Windows CE and DirectX API components have been optimized to meet the demands of game developers, while maintaining compatibility with the widely accepted Win32 API and DirectX programming model on Windows-based PCs. Incorporation of DirectX also allows the Sega Dreamcast system to capitalize on the momentum toward Windows-based PC gaming and the ever-increasing body of developers creating games for the Windows platform. "Acclaim is known for their high-quality product and development expertise," said Ted Kummert, general manager, Windows CE home products group at Microsoft. "We are excited to be working with them on the development of Sega Dreamcast titles using Windows(TM) CE. We are certain the development advantages of the Windows(TM) CE environment will help to create a next-generation of games worthy of Acclaim's reputation." This can only mean good things still to come...