Homebrew CPU Gets a Beautiful Rotating Cube Demo https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/homebrew-cpu-gets-a-beautiful-rotating-cube-demo/ #SoftwareDevelopment #Retrocomputing #homebrew #8bit #demo #cpu #vga

Haha.. just bought a #VGA cable

Tonight, I just downloaded and checked out "Alien Intruder". It's a single screen jump-and-shoot arcade platformer for DOS. Looks like it runs great on my virtual 80386 using the 86Box emulator. Also, it's free!

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/alien-intruder/

Come learn some PipelineC #HDL basics featuring the pico-ice dev board from tinyVision.ai! It has a Lattice Semiconductor @latticesemi #ice40 #FPGA and @Raspberrypi. This intro talk will cover #LED, #UART, and #VGA projects using OSS CAD Suite tools. #hardware #RTL #Verilog #VHDL #HLS

Time for the Video Game Awards... 2009!

https://youtu.be/0-MnKW1idLk?si=YJ0hyJs4LBw8jGL0

If you enjoyed this: https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv (the modern generic #SVGA driver for #windows3x ), then you'll probably also enjoy the blog post by @Ninji about getting proper video support for a #Asus #EeePC 1000H, and exploring the internals of vintage #vga, #svga and how exactly #svgapatch does its magic. #dos #dosbox

Die drei unterschiedlichen Varianten der Bestseller Games CD-ROM von "The Secret of Monkey Island" aus den Jahren 1994-1996 sind nun allesamt auf meinem Archive.org Verzeichnis verfügbar. Jeweils ein vollständiges Disc Image und ein hochauflösender Scan. Viel Spaß!

https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas

Arduino VGA, The Old Fashioned Way - Making a microcontroller speak to a VGA monitor has been a consistent project in o... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/30/arduino-vga-the-old-fashioned-way/ #arduinohacks #arduinomega #isa #vga

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Challenges with #windoz10 #windoz11 on a #thinkpad #T430s

Good old #intel #intel_corp never bothered to update & release #drivers for the HD #graphics #4000 #graphics4000
The driver is for #windows8 only

I figured this out by having the #windowsSecurity alerting that #coreIsolation - specifically #memoryIntegrity could not be enabled. With #idgkmd64.sys being released of July 2015.

If you remove the driver, the laptop defaults to the base Microsoft video driver with the horrid resolution, but you can enable memory integrity at this point. Reboot, and windows will alert that the driver cannot load because a security setting is blocking the loading of the driver.

I have dug around at length, there is no updated driver for Windows 10 or 11 (abandoned by Intel). I have tried windows update, Intel's own driver update tool, and the usual ThinkPad forums with no success. Ive found multiple posts of less experienced folks trying to decipher this issue and situation, all threads become dead ends.

So either you use the default Windows #VGA driver with memory integrity enabled and horrible resolution, or the #windows8 driver release with memory integrity disabled. Looks as I need to have a hardened configuration with #AV #EDR on this #T430s to manage the risks - more on that approach later.

#siliconValley #SillyValley
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware
#computerHistory
#retro
#retrocomputing #retroComputers
#WallOfRetro
#retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech
#nerds #nerd

This: http://textfiles.com/programming/pcgpe10.txt

It is the "PC Game Programmers Encyclopedia 1.0" (ca. 1994) and it is a meta-text file containing *many* small guides. Here is a taste:

ASM0 TXT * VLA's assembly tutorial

MODEX TXT * Introduction to mode x
SCROLL TXT * VGA scrolling

STARS TXT * VLA's programming star fields
FIRE TXT * Programming fire effects

SPEAKER TXT * Programming the PC speaker (inc 8-bit sample playback)

DOOM TXT * DOOM techniques

The Most Inexpensive Apple Computer Possible - If Apple has a reputation for anything other than decent hardware and excellent in... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/07/the-most-inexpensive-apple-computer-possible/ #raspberrypipico #retrocomputing #retrocomputing #emulation #macintosh #machacks #apple #retro #mac #vga

This is an old VGA card. Or maybe even compatible with older standards, because of 3 ROMs here. Chips are cozy warm, caps are holding time to clean the DIP chips, and check/read EPROM. Will it live again? So far no video output. Just one russian forum mentions it :) #hobby #isa #vga #tseng

And this is my drawing based on the Cosmic Cosmo (MS DOS) theme. Sausage UFO landed at the good for fun planet. So, everything is so funny here. Plants can speak. And there is a bright sky. And everything is so various.

So, here we can have a real fun! – think one, who fly with a flying saucer. With most advanced UFO sausage!

New enemies: spider and a crab. Crab is made of two sprites.

Tuesday's Titillating Troubles

in the nor-winter darkness of days dis-integrated,
all of hours again unfolding unfurling unwinding,
she peers in purveyance perceptions through and through,
to depths of fathoms deep and dark and cold,
a timeless-avast our planes of progress,
a tremor shivers down the spine,
into core and to convey that simply surely all's awoken,
so then what-may-say these cobalt-blue and tired eyes,
ignited by a burning passion from midnight-oil's sooty flames,
which may maybe only finally forcefully say...
to yearn, to scream and plead, just one more time...

WHERE IS MY VGA MONITOR! I just need to debug ONE more system! HDMI NO MORE! Leave me be with those 15-pins of pleasure!