A look back in the time portal, of when things were much simpler. Several friends gather to play various computer video games of the 90’s.
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Here’s Doom Eternal running at 1,000 fps on a liquid nitrogen cooled PC
Earlier this year id’s lead engine programmer said that id Tech 7 powering Doom Eternal could run at 1,000 fps. Which is kind of a funny theoretical laugh because nobody has a computer that can do that, at least I thought so, but apparently there are overclockers out there who can in fact do that. Bethesda recruited Polish hardware retailer x-kom to figure out how to run Doom Eternal at 1,000 frames per second. Then they did it. There’s a video of it, above.
The surprise? For me, at least, it’s that this is fairly widely available, if expensive, computer hardware. Here are the specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7 9700K @ 6.6GHz
- Motherboard: ASUS Maximus XI APEX
- GPU: ASUS RTX2080Ti Strix @ 2.4GHz
- RAM: HyperX Predator 4000MHz CL19 2x8GB
- Drive: Samsung 512GB M.2 NVMe Evo Plus
- Power: Be Quiet 1200W Straight Power
Of course, you couldn’t really do this at home because the key component is that they had to literally pour liquid nitrogen into the computer to make it work. Yes! That’s right, -196 degrees Celsius, -321 degrees Fahrenheit, liquid nitrogen. That’s because when you overclock a system like this it gets very hot. Don’t try this at home, and actually go and scold the guy who does this because he handles the liquid nitrogen without gloves and my high school chemistry teacher would be very mad about that.
You can read a more detailed article on the whole thing at Bethesda’s website. Also, if you could actually run a game at 1,000 fps, would you be able to tell the difference?
How Cartridges worked on the Nintendo Game Boy | MVG
A closer look at how Cartridge’s work on the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color
You can now play an ultra-rare Quake arcade cabinet at home
Since its 1996 PC release, id’s seminal shooter Quake has been ported to everything from flip phones and smartphones to game consoles and Web browsers. But even many serious fans of the series don’t know about Quake Arcade Tournament Edition (Quake ATE), an officially licensed version of the game that ran on custom arcade cabinets.
Even among those who know about it, few ever got a chance to play it during the brief time it was in arcades, and hardware-based DRM built into the cabinet meant the game wasn’t playable on home emulators. That state of affairs now seems set to change thanks to the recent release of a Windows executable that can decrypt the data dumped from those aging arcade hard drives for play on a modern home computer.
Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?
In my headcanon, Hannah Montana was a brilliant x86 assembly programmer on the down low. Hey you never know, leading double lives was her specialty right?
Meet the Miller Lite Cantroller, a Gamepad that’s Also a Full Can of Beer
It’s a beer can, it’s a game controller, it’s a very strange piece of promotional material.
Why the Wii U is the best Retro and Emulation console in 2020 | MVG
The WiiU might be dead but here’s why I think the Nintendo Wii U is the best console for retro and emulation in 2020. I bought another Nintendo Wii U and modded for homebrew. Let see what it can do
Nintendo 64 Portable – 2020
Finished July 2020
RAM Swapped N64
RGB10 Retro Handheld Console Review – The Best RK3326 Console So Far!
In this video we take a look at and test out the all-new PowKiddy RGB10 Retro emulation Handheld console. Powered by the RK3326 and backed by 1Gb of ram this is nod ought a clone of the ODROID Go Advance but it defiantly feels like a more refined console. We test out some SNES,NEOGEO,CPS3,Sega GBA,N64,Dreamcast and PSP. So should you skip this one or buy it? Let’s find out.`
A new Zelda game could be coming to Switch, and it’s not Breath of the Wild 2
A new Amazon listing for an upcoming Nintendo Switch game has us thanking the heavens – which is fitting, given that game is none other than The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
The 2011 installment in the beloved Nintendo franchise launched originally on the Nintendo Wii, with a release on the Wii U eShop in 2016. It was the last mainline Zelda game before Breath of the Wild (2017) on the Nintendo Switch, and is well due a port for the expanded audience of Nintendo’s bestselling hybrid console.
