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Ahhh we at Neowin saw the overjoyed mixed with dissapointment :disappoin when we brought to you the release of Powertoys Final for Windows XP. Alot of you were not pleased that the "Audio Shell Player" was dropped and quickly went about trying to tweak an install that lets you keep it.

Not Needed! - I have still got Audio Shell Player (one of the earlier releases) that lets you simply install it without screwing around with your registry and the like (thanks GOTT for the registry tip, but we dont need it now)

If you miss Audio Shell Player and want it, well here it is, ENJOY!

Download: Audio Shell Player Powertoy (99kb)

During the presentation, another Sony employee demonstrated Linux running on the PlayStation 2 platform, running the X-Windows graphical user interface. During the demonstration, show attendees were shown applications including a word processing program, a spreadsheet program, and an MP3 player running on the system.

Okamoto also gave accolades to conference host Rambus Inc., saying that the memory company was one of the most important contributors to the design and manufacture of the PlayStation 2. "We defined the main application on the PlayStation 2 as MPEG-2 (video) decoding," he said. "The solution was dual-channel RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic RAM) because MPEG-2 decoding for high-definition images is very heavy." Each PlayStation 2 uses 32M bytes of RDRAM.

Rambus was also instrumental in helping Sony boost bandwidth from 130M bytes per second on the first PlayStation to 3.2G bytes per second in the PlayStation 2, Okamoto said. Rambus also provided assistance in areas including technical consultations, package design, hardware design and system debugging, he said.