Ben Hardwidge – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:19:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Remembering Intel 740 | Custom PC #218 https://noise.getoto.net/2021/09/09/remembering-intel-740-custom-pc-218/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:19:42 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=74323 With Intel attempting to get into 3D gaming graphics again, Custom PC’s Ben Hardwidge looks at the time it failed to take on 3dfx in the late 1990s. Back in the late 1990s, I worked at a computer shop in Derby, where we sold components over the counter, while pointing to a sign that said ‘components…

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]]> PiStorm – Keeping the Amiga alive https://noise.getoto.net/2021/07/19/pistorm-keeping-the-amiga-alive/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:53:10 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=72720 Officially, the Commodore Amiga died in 1996, 11 years after Commodore brought the innovative machines to market with the Amiga 1000. In reality, there are people out there from whom you will never take their Amigas – even if the legal rights surrounding the trademarks, technology, hardware, software and so on are increasingly muddied in…

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