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  1. AlphaAtlas

    3DFX's Unreleased Rampage GPU Lives On in 2019

    Before 3dfx was shut down, they started developing a "Rampage" GPU that never saw the light of day. Even though the Rampage cards didn't enter mass production, a couple of prototypes were made, and Oscar Barea and Martin Gamero Prieto got their hands on one for their upcoming book on the history...
  2. AlphaAtlas

    Zilog Z8000 Architect Passes Away

    Dr. Bernard Peuto, the mind behind Zilog's Z8000 and Z8 processors, passed away this month, and the Electronic Engineering Journal just posted a writeup on his history with Zilog. Just before the wild success Zilog Z80, the company hired Dr. Pueto as their twelfth employee in early 1976. With...
  3. cageymaru

    Owners of Classic Total War Games Get Free Definitive Edition Upgrade

    Owners of the classic Total War games such as Total War: Empire, Total War: Napoleon, and Total War: Medieval II have had their licenses upgraded to the Definitive Edition for free. This means that all of the previously released DLC for those games has been added to the owner's Steam library. I...
  4. cageymaru

    Alienware Co-Founder Frank Azor Discusses How Gaming Has Changed

    Alienware vice president and GM Frank Azor agreed to an interview with Sameer Mitha of Digit.in where he discussed what got him into gaming at an early age (Prince of Persia), the first game he played on his own PC (Links 386), and why all gaming platforms are steps to the ultimate gaming...
  5. Zarathustra[H]

    Some Perspective: Zarathustra's Nvidia Price History

    Every single time a brand new high end NVIDIA GPU is launched, we always have the same responses. Some people think it is too expensive while others think it is well worth the price considering the performance. What is, and isn't worth it to you, is obviously a very subjective matter, and as...
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