Really interesting video; I had no idea how much further it could be pushed!

The original 3dfx Voodoo was fast, sure. But what was it REALLY capable of? Turns out, FAR more than most people knew! youtu.be/C4295RCp0GQ

K-Pop Demon Hunters is pretty dang good and I don't even like K-pop.

According to PC World's Matthew Smith, discrete desktop GPUs will DISAPPEAR because *checks notes* Intel and NVIDIA are collaborating on an AMD STRIX competitor. Shameless sensationalist nonsense. www.pcworld.com/article/2913...

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

Shit this was sudden... I'm in disbelief. My heart goes out to his family and those closest to him.

haha no you won't

Great video, and a very interesting CPU I had no idea existed

Finally found a loose Keno for a reasonable price. So satisfying to finally be able to complete my TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze NECA fig display ☺️

Seeing how badly Borderlands 4 performs without upscaling really makes me wonder how long it'll be before I start sounding like an old fart talking about an era of GPUs that used to generate every pixel put on the screen. 2 years? 4 years? It's quickly becoming the expectation, not the exception.

Sweet! Got my "recording booth" fully set up now! Basically my film table is serving double duty now, and because the monitor is 4:3, it's also perfect for testing retro graphics cards on my open testbed. Now I just need a microphone upgrade. 🤔

Hm? Oh it's nothing, just an official 2025 Atari-published game for a console from 1986

I was trying to figure out why there was so much static noise in some of my newer recordings. Turns out my Rode lav mic has gone bad this year. RIP, it lasted a good eight years

Since I'm unlikely to come back to this any time soon, I figured I'd share some half-baked updates on where I landed with my realtime GI system a couple of years ago before burning out. Maybe one day...

Pretty

Bubsy is back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4bq... Time to rent it at blockbuster

Didja hear about the new PicoGUS firmware? Updated Dual Shock 4 support, a better Sound Blaster engine, and more. Check it out! github.com/polpo/pic... ... and maybe pick one up at jcm-1.com/product/pi... ...

I forgot HL2 had different tiers at launch.

Me: "Ah, I think I'm FINALLY starting to get the hang of DaVinci Resolve's user interfa—" *immediate update that futzes around a bunch of stuff* Me: *slowly transforms into a golf ball and rolls into the nearest hole* (this multiplied several times throughout the year)

Modern day Playmates Toys has a lot of issues, but when they do right, credit where credit's due. This remastered pack fixes all the issues of the previous release, no orange peel skin, correct faces, and way better matching colors to the vintage ones than any other modern re-release. Got my money

Couldn't resist this weird cheesy Yamaha EZ AG midi guitar (with buttons!). Both better and worse than I expected, which is perfect

I've never seen the movie, but damn if this isn't the template for what all modern synthwave artists model themselves after www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdWj...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

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Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt

This is the first I've heard of the Xerox Daybreak, and that led me to @compu85.bsky.social's hw/sw overview video on it, and man.... What a beautiful machine! It's like two different architectures in one (or...three?), and that 19" screen is INSANE for 1985! youtu.be/4HyMQ9fG-V0

Nobody wants to forge their chips through Intel's 3rd-party fab service because Intel has kind of a bad reputation when it comes to competition and intellectual property. Just ask Cyrix about that.

Not mine, but a fresh image taken this evening by a friend of mine. Very cool GPU shot of an engineering sample of NVIDIA's first 'true' flagship PCI Express card, the GeForce 6800 Ultra. Notice the prominent 'NV45' moniker. No such marking on the final version: www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nv...

I guess I'm impressed that Microsoft is finding new ways to make devices crash

Happy 40th Amiga! Many memories and endless enjoyment. And it's still going, the Amiga lives on!

This video is quite the doozy! I had never heard of this variant of the Nvidia "6800". Massive air quotes on that "6800" there though as Nathan describes in the video. This early to mid 2000s period had so many of these types of cards that were deceptive to the buyer. Awful time for the uninformed.

In many ways it's the musicians that seem to be the only ones that ever really understand the human condition, and it's in these individuals that we rely on for the solace we so desperately need sometimes. RIP to a great one. youtu.be/FcklVYLPVNg

I finally recapped my Sega Genesis CDX today, but I can't for the life of me burn a copy of Doom CD32X Fusion, or any Sega CD game, that works. I even found a burner drive in my stash that works at 4x. Maybe it's the media I have. I'm using Verbatim discs but I might buy some from Maxwell.

Getting FSR4 support in Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty big win for AMD. Hopefully it also means Redstone support is around the corner too, so then we might finally see decent path-tracing performance on a Radeon card for the first time.

Hi pets, me and wife are getting into a hard part of our lives and we would really appreciate if we weren't homeless and starving during that time. We're trying for government aid, and even to apply for it, we need a home, so any donations are super appreciated right now :3 ko-fi.com/tabymeow

Here's my #GPUJune5 video!! What? Oh.. it's the middle of July? Er, um... Here's a......video! 😅 youtu.be/Tat3hXpTDJ8

Bruh. AMD. Are you somehow not seeing the news lately on this AI model?? Like this will NOT help you win additional business wccftech.com/grok-ai-mode...

Raaad youtu.be/oLMNKs4bbzA?...

It looks like against all odds, this is going to happen! #stopkillinggames

So here is something I learned today. It is the 40th anniversary of the movie Back to the Future Back to the Future was released in theaters on July 3rd, 1985!

As usual, life, uh, finds a way. Except replace "life" with "retro PCs" and then add "to make things difficult" to the end. I was hoping I'd have a video done for you guys for #GPUJune5, and I had 3 days to finish it. But software troubles, and now bad caps on a card, have delayed things too much.

Shining a light is even more important when it’s dark! Keep those flags flying wherever you are. Happy #Pride2025 🏳️‍🌈

Old computers are so much better at keeping time. On the left is my Compaq Portable III from 1987. In the middle is my desktop with internet-synced time. On the right is an old phone that hasn't been online in several weeks. The clock on the Compaq was set months ago.

Hot Take Every piece of software released on 8-inch disks was a giant flop.

testing/fixing #playdate quake-ish engine (some gameplay tests with a gun 😱) #indiedev

Hmmmm, striking resemblance on that Xbox Ally D-pad....

VGAPride is my program for displaying pride flags in MS-DOS. Here's photos of my Pentium-60mhz showing the rainbow flag, trans pride flag, non-binary pride flag, and asexual pride flag. github.com/foone/VGAPride

#PicoGUS is now an ODE! I've just released firmware v3.0.0, which adds Panasonic CD-ROM drive emulation. Put some ISOs or BIN/CUE files on a USB stick, plug it into your PicoGUS, and you've got a virtual CD-ROM drive that works in DOS and Windows 9x and supports CD audio. github.com/polpo/picogu...

Installing

I think a lot abt this 90s-era button by Mirha-Soleil Ross & Xanthra Phillippa MacKay. A lot of activism dies on the vine b/c people who can make a difference think they're alone in wanting to make the world better. Smashing that lie is so important! www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/05741s...