Collaborate Disseminate
Although watching and editing videos may be among the primary tasks of many PCs today, it wasn’t that long ago that working with video required powerful processors and expensive video …read more Continue reading Hacking the Commodore 128 to Capture Almost Real-Time Video
[Sebastian] had a tricky problem to solve. Competitors in a Tetris tournament needed to stream video of their Game Boy screens, but no solution readily existed. For reasons of fairness, …read more Continue reading GB Interceptor Enables Live Screen Capture From Game Boy
The Nintendo Game Boy and its many permutations represent one of the most well-known and successful gaming platforms ever produced. There was a decades-long stretch of time where the most …read more Continue reading ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Take Over Game Boy LCD
Is it really cheating if the aimbot you’ve built plays the game worse than you do? We vote no, and while we take a dim view on cheating in general, …read more Continue reading Teaching a Machine to Be Worse at a Video Game Than You Are
Were you aware that there’s a market for backpack-housed live streaming video systems, and that they can cost as much as $1600? Apparently these things are popular with social media moguls who want to stream themselves living their fabulous lives to people sitting at home watching on YouTube or Twitch. …read more
Autodetection of hardware was a major part of making computers more usable for the average user. The Amiga had AutoConfig on its Zorro bus, Microsoft developed Plug And Play, and Apple used NuBus, developed by MIT. It’s something we’ve come to take for granted in the modern age, but it doesn’t always work correctly. [Evan] ran into just this problem with a video capture card that wouldn’t autodetect properly under Linux.
The video capture card consisted of four PCI capture cards with four inputs each, wired through a PCI to PCI-E bus chip for a total of sixteen inputs. Finding …read more
