Return to the Wild West of Computing with PicoGraph
There is a certain mystique surrounding the pioneers of early personal computing systems. Now everything is standardized, and the best you can hope for in a new machine is incremental upgrades. But back between the 1970s and 1990s, the world of personal computing was the Wild West and computer engineers were cowboys that didn't follow the rules. The status quo could be shattered at any time by a massive hardware upgrade like a Voodoo or a Sound Blaster that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
Those days may be long gone, but now you can role play as a GPU hardware engineer from the era. Ian Hanschen has developed a tool called PicoGraph that plugs into the ISA bus of a vintage computer and emulates a graphics card with modern hardware. Using this platform, you can experiment as much as you like to see if you can squeeze a few more...
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