What’s impressive to me is how much more was done by later machines, like the Commodore 64, using almost the same CPU as the one in the Atari 2600.

And the blowfish represents OpenBSD, not BSD in general.

These mascots make sense once you understand the projects from which they come.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251015011444/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/chicago-ice-trump.html

Theres also converters that will add scan lines in, making hdmi look like old crt television.

Scan lines alone are not enough, but good shaders can come close:

https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt/

Vectrex

AMOLED display

See also:

PYREX

soda-lime glass

Fast synchronization support using NTSync.

Nice. This is what turns that kernel 6.14 feature into a performance boost for some Windows games.

Before/after examples from early last year:

== Performance ==

The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question
and the user's hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck
and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to
150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements
from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry
Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself:

Game                            Upstream        ntsync          improvement
===========================================================================
Anger Foot                       69              99              43%
Call of Juarez                   99.8           224.1           125%
Dirt 3                          110.6           860.7           678%
Forza Horizon 5                 108             160              48%
Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris    141             326             131%
Metro 2033                      164.4           199.2            21%
Resident Evil 2                  26              77             196%
The Crew                         26              51              96%
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands         130             360             177%
Total War Saga: Troy            109             146              34%
===========================================================================

0. Getting users to post text instead of screenshots of text.