Monthly Archives: June 2013

Cubemaps

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Scali

The other day I wanted to create a renderpass for realtime previewing of my cubemaps. I wanted to go for the lazy way of just googling for some code, and copy-pasting the proper coordinates into my code. However, I could … Continue reading →

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The problem with free/open source software

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Scali

I have recently obtained two Apple Mac Mini G4 machines. They date from 2005, but I did not immediately associate them with retro-programming (I would think they’d have to be quite a bit older for that). They both were unable … Continue reading →

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AMD Richland, another improvement that is not an improvement

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Scali

Only moments after Intel introduced its new Haswell, AMD also introduced its successor to Trinity, codenamed Richland. Well, I can be short about this one. Anandtech did some nice coverage on it, as usual. The focus is entirely on the … Continue reading →

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Haswell Hasarrived

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Scali

Intel has launched its new generation of Core i5/i7 processors, codenamed Haswell. If you are familiar with Intel’s tick-tock strategy, this is a ‘tock’: a microarchitecture update on existing process technology. In this case the 22 nm process which is … Continue reading →

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