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It's 40 years to the day since the first Amiga, the 1000, was released to the public. The Amiga 1000, also known as the A1000, is the first personal computer released by Commodore International in the Amiga line. It combines the 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU which was powerful by 1985 standards with one of the most advanced graphics and sound systems in its class. It runs a preemptive multitasking operating system that fits into 256 KB of read-only memory and was shipped with 256 KB of RAM. When I was a kid, our first home computer was an A1000. That computer, and the 2400 baud modem we eventually got for it, undoubtedly fed my interest in technology, in online communities via BBSs, and led inexorably to me creating OCAU. Thanks, Dad.
You can get your Amiga nostalgia fix in the Amiga thread in our Retro & Arcade forum. But if you were a little earlier onto the Commodore train than me, you might prefer the Commodore 64 Ultimate that is to be released by Commodore soon. For your cash, you will get a device which resolutely “isn’t a software emulator” but is built around an AMD Artix 7 FPGA, and is claimed to be compatible with “10,000+ original games, cartridges, and peripherals.”
Last month Bill Atkinson passed away, aged 74. Bill was another of those largely unknown computing pioneers who quietly shaped the modern world - more on the Apple side than the PC. The creator of, among many other things, Atkinson Dithering, MacPaint, and HyperCard, Bill was described by some as possibly the best computer programmer who ever lived. RIP.
OCInside have a guide to overclocking DDR5 on AMD platforms. Today we are focusing once again on the initial core topic of OCinside.de and show how you can significantly increase the speed of DDR5 RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000/9000 systems with just a few simple steps and without having to buy expensive RAM. I recently built a new PC around a Ryzen 9900X CPU and a couple of GPUs, and I was surprised to discover the (to me) oddball size of 48GB is quite common in DIMMs now. It ended up being not crazily expensive to deck out this machine with 96GB of RAM. So I did.
One driver for me building the new PC was lack of Windows 11 support on the old one, although it grinds my gears to have to upgrade from perfectly functional hardware. Anyway, Microsoft have a (mostly) free way of getting another year out of Windows 10, with some conditions, thanks metamorphosis. The Windows 10 era is almost at an end. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 and stopping security support in October. Initially, Microsoft was offering a one-year extended security update for $30, but we've got some good news: Microsoft has added a free option, allowing you to stick with Windows 10 for another year. However, in order to access it, you'll need to use cloud backup and connect it with your OneDrive account.
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