Custom PC – 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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]]> 40 years of the PC https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/12/40-years-of-the-pc/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:19:11 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=73722 Ben Hardwidge travels back to August 1981, when IBM released its Personal Computer 5150 and the PC was born. A big ape had only just started lobbing barrels at a pixelated Mario in Donkey Kong arcade machines, Duran Duran’s very first album had just rolled off the vinyl presses and Roger Federer was just four…

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]]> TOFU for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 https://noise.getoto.net/2021/08/10/tofu-for-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:36:25 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=73667 In the latest issue of Custom PC magazine, Gareth Halfacree reviews Oratek’s TOFU, a carrier printed circuit board for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The launch of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 family (reviewed in Issue 209) last year sparked an entirely unsurprising explosion of interest in designing carrier boards. This was aided in no small…

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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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]]> Gifts that last all year round https://noise.getoto.net/2020/12/09/gifts-that-last-all-year-round/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:04:05 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=66168 What if you could give the joy of opening a Raspberry Pi–themed gift every single month for a whole year? But what if the thought of wrapping 12 individual things fills you with Scrooge-level dread? Snap up a magazine subscription for one of your nearest and/or dearest and we’ll take care of the packaging and…

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