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An open-source fully custom GPU has come out of stealth after four years in development. FuryGPU has been a one-man effort from games software developer Dylan Barrie, who says he put together this extremely complex hardware and software project in his spare time. It can run Quake at 60fps.
If you’ve ever entered a license key for software activation you might’ve experienced the software verify the validity of the key without the need for internet connection. The most popular example would be a Windows installation, during that time your computer most likely does not have the necessary drivers to be connected to the internet. This was for sure more true in the era of Windows XP, but the installation still has the ability to accept a key without an Ethernet cable plugged in to this day.
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Eric Badger is emulating the 8-bit 6502 computer on the Raspberry Pi Pico and demonstrates its ability to run Loderunner.
I often like to cover oddities here; details of computers and arcade systems people may not have heard of, that didn’t sell well but had unique or interestin...