Nathan (PixelPipes)

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

Nice, I submitted an offer if you're still looking 😊

Felt the same way when I read it

Update:

A picture of Carol Shaw sitting on a chair holding a copy of River Raid. Above her it says "Meet Carol Shaw, the first female video game designer in history. In the late 1970s, when gaming was dominated by men, she joined Atari and created classic hits like River Raid - a game that became a global success. She proved that creativity has no gender and inspired generations of women in tech and gaming" Below her it says "She didn't follow the game she built it joystick and all."

Oh yeah HUGE bias. Especially since the whole point of Activision's founding was to name the designers and give them credit. They might have done that for River Raid but it's a fact that wasn't repeated nearly as often as those other examples you gave

Wow River Raid basically invented the vertical scrolling shoot-em-up 😮 (or close enough, released the same month in 82 that trials started for Xevious). Easily in my top 3 for the 2600

That's really disappointing to hear. I did like Legacy and was hoping Ares could at least match it.

every time

Pink and yellow sunrise over blue ridge mountains

I love a reminder, especially one as gorgeous as this - that for all our human drama, there are forces that know nothing of our petty chaos and they just keep on going.
#sunrise

Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now Heineman's career in games stretches back over 40 years

www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10...

Good choice. But man, there's no hiding your cabling sins in that case 😬

Wooow that is *early* for a PC video decoder. That's pretty dang neat

A Voodoo 4440H 3D accelerator card, custom designed by sdz-mods, in a shadowbox display

I had to

I just meant it looks unusual and unique. What's that other chip aside from the RAMDAC?

Yeah that Weitek card looks funky. That definitely caught my eye

It's plain PCI

Reminds me of when I recieved a card like this. Somehow it still worked. I've had cards packed in 17 layers of bubble wrap and a sturdy box arrive more broken than this intrepid thing.

Tech Ambrosia Archives - Joe's Computer Museum Tech Ambrosia Fine 3D Modeled Products designed by the wonderful Tech Ambrosia.

Have you seen Tech Ambrosia's really cool 3D Printed Test Benches?

Build any kind of PC you can think of in a tiny form factor for open-frame parts testing. They're great!

I wouldn't say it has a "stock" frequency, but sdz originally set the autoexec parameter to 55MHz, which I lowered slightly to 50 to match the stock V1.

Extra memory can be disable with some little dip switches, but I haven't had the interest to play with that

3Dfx Voodoo modded with 12 MB of RAM and two texture mappers — reveals how revolutionary GPU was way ahead of its time If you thought the 3Dfx voodoo was impressive during its day, check it out now.

Wow, crazy to see a website I used to read all the time as a teenager talking about something I did.

Many thanks to @tomshardware.fr (French affiliate seems to be the only one on bsky) for the spotlight!

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Agreed!

If you have a retro PC, and don't have a PicoGUS yet, what are you waiting for? Best piece of kit available that keeps getting better!

Agility SDK 1.618: Advanced Shader Delivery and 1.716 out of preview - DirectX Developer Blog We are pleased to announce the retail release of AgilitySDK 1.618, available on Agility SDK Downloads today! This release promotes our 1.716 features out of preview and also introduces support for the...

Advanced Shader Delivery is here devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agil...

Little #PicoGUS release that solves some majorly annoying bugs! v.3.2.1 fixes several regressions in pgusinit that prevent setting ports or returning to card defaults. It also includes a reset/power-on stability improvement.
github.com/polpo/picogu...

Fantastic stuff!

Yeah neither did I. Quantum3D hardware is so hard to come by so my only exposure was like most people with a bog standard Voodoo. I learned a LOT making that video

Modding project unleashes the full potential of the 3dfx Voodoo graphics architecture The 3dfx Interactive brand is Gone But Not Forgotten, as modders are still proving with new projects using the chip architecture that made 3D PC gaming possible....

I'm always consistently impressed with Alfonso's knowledgeability over at Tech Spot on retro PC hardware. I check the site almost daily, so I was shocked to see this posted yesterday!

www.techspot.com/news/109630-...

Shelf with old graphics cards, three of which are propped up on little stands. The three propped up are (L2R) a PowerVR PCX1, 3dfx Voodoo Graphics, and Rendition Vérité 1000E. Two cards laying down in front of them are ATI’s Rage Fury MAXX, and 3DFX's Voodoo5 5500

My main GPU display shelf now has an area focused on pioneering 3D accelerators from 1996.

I originally had a PCX2 on the left, but that one is from 97, so I put a PCX1 in its place for consistency. Not really on par with the other two, but that's just how it was in 96 before 3dfx broke the mold

It looks like you ransacked Club3D's warehouse