Search Results For: Amiga
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Jeff Butts - Mon, Jan 03, 2022
Almost daily, one extremely cool project or another surfaces, centered around Raspberry Pi. Weve seen creators build vintage-looking internet radios, for example, using Raspberry Pi. Others have built Game Boy-inspired handheld gaming...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Oct 15, 2021
One of the great advantages of video game emulators is that they allow us to shine up old titles that may suffer due to low resolutions or frame rate limits. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has remained one of the most popular...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 10, 2021
The classic Amiga 500 is getting remade and reborn as another miniature console for old school gaming (in case you're not interested in building a killer Amiga emulator yourself). While the original system was released by...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 29, 2021
We're big fans of retro gaming (which is our way of saying some of us are old fogies), and so we always get a thrill when someone shows off a project that is a throwback to bygone eras, be it the venerable Commodore 64, Amiga...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jun 09, 2021
Games are one of the best testbeds for AI as they require problem-solving, forward-thinking, and other skills that normally only humans possess. So far, AI has gotten a handle on games like Go and up to 57 different Atari 2600 titles, but...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 27, 2020
There is absolutely no reason to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC with 1GB of RAM. Zip. Zilch. Nada. However, there are plenty of reasons to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 model with 2GB of RAM, because the good folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 21, 2019
The popular Raspberry Pi 3 has a new rival in the mini PC space. Shenzhen Xunlong Software has released its Orange Pi 3 development board, with this latest iteration addressing some of the shortcomings of previous generation models. Just...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 04, 2018
Valve recently had a fire sale on its Steam Link accessory, which sold for a meager $2.50 during Black Friday and Cyber Monday as Valve looked to rid itself of all existing stock. Foreverit's not coming back. That's a bummer, though in its...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 15, 2018
Restoration projects that focus on old computers that have long since been replaced by newer equipment always pique our interest, but this one is different. Mike Stewart, a "space engineer extraordinaire and living Apollo Guidance Computer...
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Marco Chiappetta - Sat, Nov 03, 2018
On this latest episode of HotHardwares Two And Half Geeks, Marco and Dave chat about Intel's super-fast Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU, AMD's new 12 and 24-core Threadripper 2920X and 2970WX, what happens when you put two GeForce GTX 2080 Ti...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Oct 28, 2018
Although it may not be readily apparent to current computing enthusiasts given all the attention to modern Intel and AMD hardware running Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, there is still a large community dedicated to...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Sep 24, 2018
A few weeks back, we showed you a handful of Commodore Amiga-related hardware projects that were designed to breathe new life into the popular, vintage machines. Even decades after Commodores demise, the Amiga user community...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 13, 2018
Back in 2013, a company called Kano set out to teach kids and adults alike how to code with a simple computer and coding kit that appeared on Kickstarter. It received over $1.5 million in funding and has been shipping every since. Today...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Aug 14, 2018
The Amiga community remains one of the most passionate and inventive we have ever seen, even now, decades after Commodores demise. A couple of weeks back, we featured just a few recent projects that were designed to breathe new life...
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David Altavilla - Thu, Aug 02, 2018
In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Chris and Dave will be chatting about a hot, new Samsung HDR Curved Gaming Monitor, Lenovo's Google Assistant-powered Smart Display, SanDisk's Extreme Portable USBC...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jul 31, 2018
Although it has been over three decades since the first Commodore Amigas were originally released, a fan base for the beloved systems is still going strong. Of course, the Amiga install base is a small fraction of what it was...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jul 19, 2018
In this latest episode of Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and special guest Brittany chat about HPs swank EliteBook G5 series, throttling MacBook Pros, the glorious ASUS 4K HDR G-SYNC gaming displays, Intel 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jan 16, 2018
An upcoming documentary The Commodore Story is poised to hit long-time computer geeks that witnessed the birth of the 8-bit personal computing revolution right in the feels.
At one point in time, Commodore was a billion dollar company...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, Dec 13, 2017
If you were alive in 1985, it was a pretty good year to be around. The movies that came out that year are some of the most popular and classic of '80s films like "The Goonies", "Back to the Future", "Weird Science", and "The Breakfast...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Dec 04, 2017
If you are a frequent visitor to HotHardware, then you know that we have a soft spot for Amiga systems. So, our ears naturally perked up when we received word of an old Amiga 2500 system that has found its way to eBay. But...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Nov 23, 2017
As we inch closer to the release of the retro-tastic Ataribox, more details regarding the console are being revealed. At this point, we know the device will be powered by a custom AMD-built SoC, it runs on Linux, weve seen its wood-clad...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Oct 24, 2017
A myriad of devices are powered by processors or SoCs featuring ARM technology. From your smartphone or smartwatch, to your router or media streamer -- and a multitude of devices in between -- odds are that an ARM-based processor has some...
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