Yes, this is shameless self-promotion. It’s my first Ebook! Personal Computers these days are small and big and comes in all sizes and shapes (mostly cube-like shapes). As customers, most of you just want the little elves inside the box to keep running their buns off, and don’t really care about how it all works …
As Intel and AMD grew close to the physical limit of the smallest transistor they could build, they had to find ways of packing more transistors and continue to increase computing power. Their solution was to add more processing units – all working together in tandem, and sharing some of the cache memory provided. Since …
PC games didn’t even start on PC. Personal Computers were meant for work, spreadsheets, word processors, number crunching, but not games. For that, before home game consoles came to be, there were the video arcades. Large stuffy halls filled with big noise boxes into which you could push a coin and play a game, usually …
I wrote a preview about it, in another language, at another place. Here I wanted to say a few more things: Squadron 42 is a very ambitious endeavour. It’s being taken on by Chris Roberts, the father (and mother) of the Wing Commander Saga – and because of that it got a very good chance …
Almost since the beginning of the Internet, people begun seeing the potential in this vast and growing network for file sharing purposes. Whether it’s for public domain software, video clips, text and photos, or more.. controversial data, such as pirated porn, software, films, music and games, the network proved to be the wastelands no one …