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Ray Tracer ported to an x86 boot sector in only 483 bytes, run on Pentium Pro and faster CPUs
By Christopher Harper published
An x86 boot sector Ray Tracer, inspired by Ray Tracer for Atari 8-bit Basic, brings some real-time RT rendering to 90s-era hardware.
Spectra Cube heralds new 75,000 TB storage library
By Christopher Harper published
Spectra Cube features support for Amazon S3 and boasts of ease of use and maintenance, running at up to 81TB/hr throughput with compressed data.
Enthusiast adds microtransactions to DOOM
By Mark Tyson published
A hardware and software enthusiast, who admits he likes a little nonsense, has added microtransactions to DOOM. We searched for some deeper meaning, but perhaps it is just nonsense.
Mid-level Nvidia employee retires with $62 million from stock options, while another lost it all
By Mark Tyson published
Even ‘mid-level’ employees have become multi-millionaires.
Thousands of apps ported back to Windows 95 twenty-eight years later — .NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software
By Christopher Harper published
MattKC painstakingly ports .NET to Windows 95 from Windows 98, enabling many applications that would not otherwise work.
Microsoft lifts two-year-old block that prevented some users from upgrading to Windows 11 — fix finally arrives after a long wait for Rocket Lake CPUs
By Dallin Grimm published
Microsoft fixes a bug preventing PCs with specific Intel drivers from using Windows 11 without crashes and allows affected PCs to upgrade from Windows 10.
U.S. lawmakers annoyed with Huawei's latest laptop with Intel Meteor Lake CPUs
By Anton Shilov published
As the presidential election race heats up, Republican lawmakers criticize Biden administration export decisions.
Vendor readies AMD motherboards for Zen 5 CPUs
By Aaron Klotz published
MSI has published new BIOS updates featuring AMD's latest AGESA 1.1.7.0 firmware update, incorporating "next-gen" CPU support for its upcoming Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPUs.
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