retro-hardware.md

Retro Hardware

• [retro-sound-chips]

• [retro-storage]

• RetroFab - Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games (in browser)

• electronics to control a CRT monitor (aka a CRT chassis)

• theretroweb.com

  • PC Hardware database + drivers

• 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]

• DVST Graphic Terminals

  • 1024*768 in 1975!!!! (The Future)
  • 4114

• One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

  • Disassembly of VESA drivers for windows 3.11 to fix a laptop graphics glitch - great explanation

• Vectrex

  • Vector display with 3d-glasses!

• Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

• The Story of Creative Technology

  • The Sound Blaster!
  • See also this dudes 'Story of 3dfx' called 'So powerful its kind fo rediculus

• amiga-news: Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40

  • Dale Luck from the original Amiga development team has preserved the very first Amiga prototype, which used three huge stacks of well-equipped breadboards instead of custom chips. The computer was on display in Germany for the first time last weekend at the Amiga 40 event. Amiga user ‘Pittrock’ took pictures of the exhibit and kindly gave us permission to publish them here:

• The Sega Master System Architecture

• [game-and-watch]