Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Professional Selected asa Game Developer's Magazine Front Line AwardsFinalist.
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1999--Metrowerks, Inc., (Nasdaq:MTWKF) (TSE:MWK) (ME:MWK) a leading supplier of software development tools for desktop and embedded systems, announced today that CodeWarrior Professional Release 4 has been selected as a finalist in the Best Development Environment category for Game Developer magazine's Front Line Awards. The awards are the publication's tribute to the outstanding game development products and technology tools released in 1998. The Front Line Awards will be announced during the 1999 Game Developers Conference (GDC) (March 15-19, San Jose Convention Center), a trade-only event.
CodeWarrior Professional Release 4 features the latest version of the CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and is hosted on the Windows(R) 95/98, Windows(R) NT, Macintosh(R), and Solaris(TM) platforms. CodeWarrior Professional Release 4 includes processor-specific code generation support for Pentium-class and PowerPC processors. CodeWarrior Professional's C compiler is ANSI/ISO C compliant and the C++ compiler closely tracks the emerging ANSI/ISO C++ standard.
"Metrowerks is honored to have been chosen as a Front Line Awards finalist for our CodeWarrior Professional product," said Greg Galanos, president and chief technology officer, Metrowerks. "In a fast-paced, competitive industry such as game development, users need fast, powerful and easy-to-use tools like CodeWarrior to get the job done."
Metrowerks will be demonstrating CodeWarrior for PlayStation Release 5, CodeWarrior for Nintendo 64, CodeWarrior Professional and CodeWarrior Analysis Tools in the Metrowerks Booth No. 2017 at the Game Developers Conference Expo, March 16-19, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif.
About GDC
From around the world, the most influential and creative individuals in videogame development gather in San Jose, Calif. March 15-19. Game Developers Conference attendees will be treated to over 250 lectures and tutorials, and hundreds of exhibits showing the latest in tools, technology and services for making games. The 13th annual GDC (www.gdconf.com) is part of the Miller Freeman suite of complementary game industry media offerings, including the first GAMEXecutive Conference (www.gamexecutive.com), Game Developer magazine (www.gdmag.com), and Gamasutra, the Internet's leading Game Developer Community site (www.gamasutra.com).
