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Pfl A6 The Dally Item Tuesday, November 28, 1995 NY STOCKS AREA STOCKS Nintendo unveils 64-bit game player 46m 24m 1197 -1M 957 377 1m 2512 11639 2788 21907. 12164 114591 Moulnd 3 Humana in Cp 1.98 IBM 1 IntPap 1 1 Kmart .48 Kroger NEW YORK lAP)-Monday's selected natural prices lor New York Stock Exchange issues: 1452 Bate ttgh Lew QIOM Wig. LbtyASE 1.04a 952 LockhMn 1.40 2134 -M 1 -M ll 7034 73m 71 65 30430 66m 697 Loews 1 AMR 1.32 Airqas AirTouch Alcan.60 AfcoSt 847 21661 28m 27m 28i 27m 34 33m 2863 .56 1871 46i -I 72m 65m 27m -w 28ia a 33m 45m 46i 28 46 1 58i 3fM i 91 13 1 56i 67ia i4 16ia -i 57 -i 607 28 27m 46i 45m 58m 57t 37m 37 81 90 ADgPov.1.64 906 Aldsignl.78 10111 AJcoa .90 7437 AEIPw 2.40 2782 AHome 3.061 4469 7m 33m 11 72m 1537 32m 31 6m 18 58m 64m 104m 21m 31m. 10m 9m 50m 227 40m 29m 45m 26m 28 30m 47m 40 53m 33m 447 29m 4214 u56m 55m 4603 67t 66? 7384 972 4741 4891 15252 8225 7769 3583 165 2213 8104 5289 1943 839 3075 2669 4207 6677 4243 5325 1181 8828 7835 2186 3188 16m 16m 1337 6i 67 605 ''Bits 60m Lowes .201 Lukens 1 MIN .53 McDerl 1 Merck 1.361 MMM 1 88 Mobd 3.70 Mylans .16 NatFGSJ.62 Navistar NiaMPI.12 Nynex2.36 OrwEd1.50 OklaGE 2.66 PECO 1.741 PPG 1.201 PacEnt 1.36 PacGE1.96 PacTel2.18 Penney 1.92 Pennzol 1m PepsiC PMPet 1.22 Polaroid .60 Praxiir 22 Amerttch 2 Amoco 2.40 Am sco Armco ArmWI1.44 AHRjch5.50 Avnet.60 3458 109w 108i' 109m i 4196 44m 43i 3625 64r 63m 6ellAtl2.80 43u 64i 38m ti 14i -t 20ia 88 44 7025 387 -38m BetriStl 9981 14m 14i -1 1K -M 1 (Liet furnished by Jenney Montgomery 8cott Yesterday' cloting price Acme 26 American Brands 42 American Greeting 28 American Home Foods 91 i AMP 39 Bass 21 CBS. 81 7 Community Banks ,28 Conrail 69m Cooper Industries 36 Delmarva PW 22 Dorsey i 1 6 Dow Jones 38 du Pont 67 7' Duquesne bght 29 Fleetwood Enterprises 22 Fulton 21 General Mills 55 GTE 42 Harley Davidson 27 Hershey Foods 61 H.J.

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Those developers include three major producers: Acclaim Entertainment WMS Industries Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. "The developers would put their software on biscuits if biscuits were the largest-selling," says Howard Lincoln, chairman of Nintendo's big Nintendo of America unit in Redmond, Wash. "This is a battle for us to win or lose based on quality." Nintendo is working on a new storage device for Ultra 64 to overcome the limit on the amount of information that can be crammed into a cartridge. The device is expected to be some kind of magnetic recording disk but won't be unveiled until perhaps late next year.

And Nintendo officials say the cartridge games still run faster than CD-ROM games, which can bog down in tasks such as switching from one game level to the next. Silicon Graphics' hardware and software technology, moreover, appears to at least temporarily elevate the cartridge games to a level beyond the existing, competition. It allows players to zoom in and out of scenes without losing any image clarity, as now happens on the competing players. Also uniquely, it removes the fuzzy boundaries around objects that make them look artificial, and lets the computer create 3-D images on the fly rather than having them preprogrammed in a cumbersome manner, says George Zachary, manager of I Silicon Graphics' consumer-electronics marketing. "Nothing can match the Nintendo machine, at least for a says Brad Hunt, chief technology officer for the firm, which produced special effects for the movie "Lawnmower Man." "We've been doing (special-effects) work on $250.000 SGI workstations," says Michael Limber, the firm's chief operating officer.

"The Ultra 64 appears, almost exactly the Adds Jim Willcox, senior editor at Twice, a trade magazine in New York: "Nintendo is delivering a better system at a lower price than competitive systems on the market." Nintendo could still trip up for reasons having little to do with technology. Sony's PlayStation, which gets high marks from game players, has already attracted a lot of game-developer support and is trouncing Sega in sales. Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. is also about to climb into the ring, with a line of 64-bit players expected to be launched in the United States next year using advanced technology it licensed, from 3DO a Redwood City, company. Amid all this, many software developers have been abandoning the dated cartridge format for the CD-ROM technology used by Sony and Sega players, as well as personal-computer makers.

games cost less to make, ana can store more graphical material than cartridges. Potentially, developers could find larger markets and greater profits in the CD-ROM world. Without sufficient games, analysts say Ultra 64 sales would languish. Indeed, Nintendo's Virtual Boy, an advanced portable player, has gotten off to a shaky start because of what the company acknowledges was a dearth of compelling games at the launch last summer. 4960 1117 8459 3419 DelEd 2.06 OalCp .64 DowCh3 Dressr .68 By Jim Carlton From The Wall Street Journal CHIBA, Japan Nintendo Co.

demonstrated its new game player. Ultra 64, for the first time, and appears to have delivered on its promise to technologically leapfrog its two major competitors in the hard-fought video-game wars. The player, unveiled at a trade show here over the weekend, basically uses a powerful and new software from Silicon Graphics Inc. famous for the workstations used to create the animation in "Jurassic Park" to turbocharge an older cartridge-based technology with realistic 3-D imaging ability. The product represents a big gamble for Nintendo.

To develop enough games for the new machine, Nintendo was forced to delay its market launch from the Christmas season until April Meanwhile, Sega Enterprises Ltd. and Sony Corp. are already offering advanced pjayers that use CD-ROM drives and disks. But many game developers and analysts at the show said Nintendo has won its technology bet and that the delays won't hurt the company. They say the Ultra 64, which processes information in 64-bit chunks, offers more horsepower and better 360-degree, 3-D effects and sound than Sega's Saturn and Sony's PlayStation, which are based on 32-bit technology.

And because it uses the old cartridge format, the Ultra 64 will be priced at about $250 in stores, compared with about $300 for Saturn and PlayStation, Nintendo says. Angel Studios, a computer-animation firm in Carlsbad, which has already developed a game for Saturn, says it now plans to concentrate on a forthcoming Ultra 64 title, a "virtual" racing game called Buggie-Boogie. 32m 32ia 25m 25m 71 70m 23i 22m 68i 67 32i 32i 70m 69m 79i 78m 130m 537 16m 137 56m 38m 9 46m 717 74m 29i2 -1 31m 18i 18m 33tfl 1 1 -M 414 46 -1 -1 11214 1046 7756 6539 2207 753 1987 Sears .92 TCW .84 Tennco 1 .60 Texaco 3.20 Textron 1 .56 Trinova .72 UAL 583 DuPont2.08 15965 EastEn1.48t 322 EKodak1.60 10828 Exxon 3 8745 67m i 41 19l 7 29 i 43is 277 -M 47m -m 29i 74m ia 32m 25m -i 70m i 23m i 68 1 32m 697 79 135 287 -M 26ia 42 i 65m -m 55m tin 49 1m 31m 3m i 53 70 42m -m 21 is -M 31 ii -M 443M 7 USWests 2.1414095 18860 USWMn Flntste 3.20 3052 135w 134m FordM 1.401 33167 29w 28m FoxMHIt 519 27 26i GTE 1.88 11867 u42is 41 7 GenElec 1.64 18562 66m 65i 41m 1i 6m -tM 12i GnMill 1.88b 2708 GnMotr1.20 42751 GM .527386 50i GPU 1.88 1559 55m 55 49u 487 49 50i 31m 31 3m 3m 4225 5859 8259 5351 5681 5441 26732 29420 2679 215 330 5330 USXMar .68 USXUSS 1 UCarb .75 Unisys UsairG Unocal .80 WalMart .20 WstgEI .20 Williams 1.08 WinDix1.80 Winnbg .40 Xerox 3 ZenithE 27m 24m 16m 42 655 1664 -M 1 8038 u53w 52m Gensco Gillette 60 Gdrch 2.20 U.S. SAVINGS 724 70m 70 BONDS 7m -m 15m 139s 1i 7m 43m 42m 21m 21 12 32m 31 1 447 437 Goodyear 1 9157 GtAtPc .20 240 Heinz 1.06 6168 HmeDep.20 20580 2563 u140w 1482 7m It Works Wonders. Dow sets another record American Heart Association NEW YORK (AP) The Dow industrial average vaulted to a record high today for the fourth straight session, buoyed by optimism that the Federal Reserve would soon lower interest rates.

The Dow average was up over 30 points near the close, fueled, by a surge in a number of blue-chip stocks including Caterpillar, Procter Gamble and Broad market indexes were mixed. Stocks rallied at the open, latching on to a bond market rally that was spurred by a report showing a decline in October home buying. The National Association of Realtors reported sales of previously owned homes dropped 1.9 percent in the first decline in six months despite falling i ft TrV lVX "Anderson" Sleekly styled I transitional Reclina-Rest recliner 'vfeA U- $344. coTon A 1 fX "Chelsea" jSL yf 1 Traditional styled occasional chair or iv SJ swivel rocker built for absolute comfort 1 CS' i-wv- fem mortgage rates. 'The slight drop in existing home sales made many investors believe there is further reason for Fed to cut interest rates," said Alan Ackerman, senior vice president at ahnestock Co.

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