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Nathan (PixelPipes)

@pixelpipes.bsky.social

Retro computer and 3D hardware enthusiast, host and creator of the PixelPipes YouTube channel. I am, in fact, even dumber than I look. (He/Him) https://www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes

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Crystal Voice
YouTube video by Tangerine Dream - Topic Crystal Voice

I've never seen the movie, but damn if this isn't the template for what all modern synthwave artists model themselves after
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdWj...

04.08.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

03.08.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14953    πŸ” 5820    πŸ’¬ 492    πŸ“Œ 252
Logo included on late 90s PC games that says "Requires 3D Acceleration"

Logo included on late 90s PC games that says "Requires 3D Acceleration"

Provided without context

04.08.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
02.08.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like it held up quite a bit better than our founding documents did

02.08.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt

02.08.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4137    πŸ” 598    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 64

Awesome, I appreciate it!

02.08.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would you mind at all if I potentially use one of your images here of the core in a future video, with credit?

02.08.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. We fall into the same trap the other side did in 2020 if we start donning the tin foil hats ourselves. For the same reason the other side couldn't prove their cases in court, and Fox News lost almost a billion to Dominion Voting Systems, we ultimately have no one else to blame but the voters

31.07.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who doesn't like a computer they can float around on in a swimming pool?

29.07.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the first I've heard of the Xerox Daybreak, and that led me to @compu85.bsky.social's hw/sw overview video on it, and man.... What a beautiful machine! It's like two different architectures in one (or...three?), and that 19" screen is INSANE for 1985!
youtu.be/4HyMQ9fG-V0

29.07.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody wants to forge their chips through Intel's 3rd-party fab service because Intel has kind of a bad reputation when it comes to competition and intellectual property.

Just ask Cyrix about that.

28.07.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh boy. I feel like they'd make you sign a liability waiver when you walk in

27.07.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I said the same thing

27.07.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not mine, but a fresh image taken this evening by a friend of mine.
Very cool GPU shot of an engineering sample of NVIDIA's first 'true' flagship PCI Express card, the GeForce 6800 Ultra.
Notice the prominent 'NV45' moniker. No such marking on the final version:
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nv...

27.07.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I'm impressed that Microsoft is finding new ways to make devices crash

25.07.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yep, that was it. It was the discs I was using. Found this random stack of blank CDRs at a Goodwill today and they work like a charm!

24.07.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That is a very nice set up, nonetheless

24.07.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"the balls just flow to each other..."

no one take this out of context

24.07.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A Commodore Amiga 2000 setup playing the game Cannon Fodder

A Commodore Amiga 2000 setup playing the game Cannon Fodder

Happy 40th Amiga! Many memories and endless enjoyment. And it's still going, the Amiga lives on!

24.07.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This video is quite the doozy! I had never heard of this variant of the Nvidia "6800". Massive air quotes on that "6800" there though as Nathan describes in the video. This early to mid 2000s period had so many of these types of cards that were deceptive to the buyer. Awful time for the uninformed.

24.07.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow literally exactly his style haha

23.07.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
close my eyes forever-Lita Ford with Ozzy Osbourne
YouTube video by tzurleabade close my eyes forever-Lita Ford with Ozzy Osbourne

In many ways it's the musicians that seem to be the only ones that ever really understand the human condition, and it's in these individuals that we rely on for the solace we so desperately need sometimes.

RIP to a great one.
youtu.be/FcklVYLPVNg

23.07.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I finally recapped my Sega Genesis CDX today, but I can't for the life of me burn a copy of Doom CD32X Fusion, or any Sega CD game, that works. I even found a burner drive in my stash that works at 4x.

Maybe it's the media I have. I'm using Verbatim discs but I might buy some from Maxwell.

22.07.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Getting FSR4 support in Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty big win for AMD. Hopefully it also means Redstone support is around the corner too, so then we might finally see decent path-tracing performance on a Radeon card for the first time.

19.07.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
blΓ₯haj in front of the trans flag with the text: everytime you reskeet this blΓ₯haj you help a transfem

blΓ₯haj in front of the trans flag with the text: everytime you reskeet this blΓ₯haj you help a transfem

Hi pets, me and wife are getting into a hard part of our lives and we would really appreciate if we weren't homeless and starving during that time.

We're trying for government aid, and even to apply for it, we need a home, so any donations are super appreciated right now :3

ko-fi.com/tabymeow

18.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 940    πŸ” 922    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 20

Oh shit...

18.07.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That particular round of testing was done on a 939Dual-SATA2, A64 X2 4400+ @ 2.7, so plenty enough CPU for those cards. The results on my own ALive-Dual are incomplete for that era of cards.

18.07.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interestingly I didn't see any significant shift between 32 and 64MB on the GeForce 256. Might be down to overall weaker fillrates though capping performance

18.07.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Worst GeForce 6800 Series Card Ever Made
YouTube video by PixelPipes The Worst GeForce 6800 Series Card Ever Made

Here's my #GPUJune5 video!! What? Oh.. it's the middle of July?
Er, um...
Here's a......video! πŸ˜…
youtu.be/Tat3hXpTDJ8

16.07.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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