XtoF's Lair

I just acquired a mighty 486DX2 66 MHz! Enough to build a powerful gaming PC as it were 1993 all over again! This post is a presentation of the hardware, including some comparisons with other retro platforms of the day.

std::async is one of the many functions introduced by C++11 to take advantage of multithreaded hardware. But does it allow true asynchronous programming?

Most reviews of PC monitors will test their color accuracy. But they almost never measure their homogeneity. Yet, this is a critical piece of information.

A postmortem report about how I ported Conway's Game of Life to the Apple II. Comes with an online Apple II emulator to trye it.

The Apple II really lacks sound capaibilities. In this regard, it is even behing the infamous IBM PC! Adding some music and sound effects to my programs would be nice.

In 1977, the Apple II was the very first personal computer providing color graphics capabilities with its LORES and HIRES modes. This feat was achieved in a very clever, but peculiar way.

Programming the Apple II in assembly provides a huge speed advantage over C. What is my workflow and do I debug?