If you have ever used an eraser to correct a piece of pencil work, have you ever considered how much of an innovation it must have seemed when the first erasers were invented? It might seem odd to ...

If you have a computer on your desk today, the chances are that it has an Intel architecture and is in some way a descendant of the IBM PC. It may have an Apple badge on the front, it may run Linux, ...

Whether you belong to Team Nvidia or team AMD, Xbox or PlayStation, or even Apple Mac vs PC, you’ve probably heard of ray-tracing. It's the holy grail for computer graphics. It works by simulating ...

To appreciate the subject of this post, you're going to have to take a trip back to 1993 with us. The gaming scene on the IBM PC had been growing rapidly for a few years, championed by graphics-heavy ...

The year 2000, which once seemed so impossibly futuristic, had finally arrived. Bill McEwen, president of the new Amiga Inc., celebrated with a press release telling the world why he had bought the ...

With all Amiga graphics, you had to pick a resolution and color depth, and constrain your use of graphic commands to fit them. They did have an aftermarket for graphic cards, and a generic set of ...