John Brooks
@JBrooksBSI
Fun with PS5, cycle-counting various Pi boards, and retro-Apple IIGS
.@waveshare00 RP2350-PiZero is a Raspberry Pi Zero lookalike based on the RP2350 microcontroller. cnx-software.com/2025/07/08/rp2… It comes with a 16MB flash, a microSD card slot, a mini HDMI port (DVI output), two USB-C ports, a 40-pin GPIO header, and LiPo battery support. You could…
Pulled my Dreamcast devkit out of storage and put it on the retro bench with my VidHD and #AppleII projects. I wonder if the devkit will work after 25 years... 🤔
hey @StrongBadActual I see they finally posted an update on the Apple II Peasant's Quest remaster youtube.com/watch?v=T8Pupx…
I have to remind everyone that “The only winning move, is not to play.”
An existential analogy for you. This screenshot is of a PDP-11/70 running RT-11. What it doesn't know is that it's actually running in a simulation, and that simulation is hosted on a DEC VAX 4000. But what that VAX doesn't know is that it's also running in a simulation, and…
Why can AIs code for 1h but not 10h? A simple explanation: if there's a 10% chance of error per 10min step (say), the success rate is: 1h: 53% 4h: 8% 10h: 0.002% @tobyordoxford has tested this 'constant error rate' theory and shown it's a good fit for the data chance of…
The number of satellites launched into space has grown incredibly fast
Cool plot twist with @sarahntuned '74 Celica project car. It is rare to see such a labor of love. youtube.com/watch?v=G9entV…
The new VidHD2 prototype works. Here is a pic of the 0.7 rev (right) next to the 2018 VidHD1 board. VidHD plugs into a 70s, 80s, or 90s retro #appleII and adds 1080p video by emulating Woz's video circuitry and a 70s NTSC YIQ TV signal w/color artifacts. youtube.com/watch?v=ehQpC2…
New post! Building on the previous one, now we're using temporal information to improve the quality of MSAA super resolution. filmicworlds.com/blog/temporal-…
I trippe over a copy of Rudyard Kipling's Oath of the Engineer a few minutes ago. I'm not sure I've ever seen the full version before! "On this day, in the presence of my fellows in the Calling, I bind myself upon my Sacred Honor, that to the best of my knowledge and ability, I…
The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.
New post: Upsampling via Multisampling. The goal is to use an MSAA target in an interesting way for doing a 4x area upsample. filmicworlds.com/blog/upsamplin…
"RDNA4" Instruction Set Architecture amd.com/content/dam/am…