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CRT gaming performance visualised with a side-by-side setup of a Sony Trinitron CRT and a modern OLED monitor in a technical lab, featuring latency measurement tools and gaming hardware.

Frame-Time Forensics: Testing CRT Gaming Performance Claims

5 November 2025 Tom Davies 0

This investigative piece unravels the real impacts of CRT displays on gaming performance, blending scientific method with competitive gaming experiences to determine whether these vintage monitors genuinely offer a competitive edge.

Sound Blaster PC audio wars emphasised by a 1990s PC setup with a visible Sound Blaster card, alongside a CRT monitor showing a game, surrounded by vintage game boxes and manuals.

Sound Blaster PC audio wars – Sound Blaster vs. the World: How Creative Labs Won the PC Audio Wars

31 October 2025 Tom Davies 0

Discover the intriguing story of how Creative Labs’ Sound Blaster won the PC audio wars, not through superior technology, but by mastering compatibility and market strategy.

British Software's Golden Age depicted through a composition featuring a ZX Spectrum, cassette tapes, and an Amiga set against a blurred 1980s British home computing environment.

British Software’s Golden Age: How UK Game Studios Changed the World (and Still Shape It Today)

21 July 2025 Tom Davies 0

Dive into the heart of British Software’s Golden Age, exploring how vintage computing culture and limited hardware sparked unmatched creativity and innovation in the game development scene.

Tech Brief - 16 July 2025 portrays an 8-bit pixel art scene with a central motif of a stylised computer and smaller objects like a vinyl record, USB stick, and tiny hydrogen car, all illustrative of the key topics discussed in the tech brief.

Tech Brief – 16 July 2025: MoD cyber breach, hydrogen cars, vinyl revival

16 July 2025 Tom Davies 2

Tech Brief – 16 July 2025 reveals urgent updates across digital security, transport technology, and retro hardware. It keenly addresses significant data breaches, the pivot from hydrogen vehicles, and a resurgence in vinyl culture, highlighting the evolving interplay between legacy systems and new technologies.

Part 5: Hack the Dictator – Spain’s Wild 8-Bit Golden Age

31 May 2025 Tom Davies 0

In 1980s Spain, kids didn’t just play games — they copied them, hacked them, and built a golden age of bedroom-born code. This is the punk history of Spain’s homegrown 8-bit rebellion.

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