A vintage computing enthusiast and fan of retro Apple computers has built the first new Apple Macintosh Plus compatible clone in 34 years. The electrical engineer adds it to their previous work cloning the Apple Lisa but says the job’s not done yet. Posting onMastodon as DosFox, the enthusiast said they had been trying to bring this project to fruition for years. “Theoretically this project is even older than the Lisa project — I only built the Lisa as I couldn’t build a Macintosh,” they wrote....

The Linux OS Firewire Maintainer is looking for help from testers who are still using the ancient hardware. Takashi Sakamoto has made it his quest to keep Firewire (IEEE 1394) support going on Linux systemsuntil 2029. However, with such hardware increasingly rare, he is looking for more input from the user base, reportsPhoronix. User testing is all the more vital for bug-free Firewire support in Linux 6.12 as there is a significant change to the underlying code this time around....

Are you in the market for a capable gaming laptop without breaking the bank? If that’s the case, look no further than the Acer Nitro V 15, which has plummeted to a historical low of $599 this Cyber Monday atAmazon- packing an i5-13420H backed by the RTX 4050, 8GB of upgradeable memory, a 512GB SSD and a fast 144 Hz panel. Aside from our recommendation that you consider upgrading the RAM on this system after purchase, this is a serviceable gaming laptop at an exceptionally low price point....

Back in August, GPDannouncedthe Pocket 4 mini laptop, which was supposedly the first handheld to employ AMD’s latest Strix Point APUs. Following that,GPD Game Consoleshas recently shared the pricing structure for these handhelds at X—starting at $895 with AMD’s Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 8840U model and as high as $1,466 if you want the flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 decked out with 64GB of RAM and 2TB of storage....

When we reviewed theRTX 4080 Superat the end of January, we noted that it only offered minor performance improvements over the RTX 4080, but the $200 cut in MSRP was a welcome change. I didn’t think demand for the RTX 4080 Super would drive prices up much, but at least for six weeks, that proved to be wrong. In February, the least expensive RTX 4080 Super we could find was often in the $1,300 or higher range — and the same was true of the ‘discontinued’ vanilla RTX 4080 cards....

When using a dedicated graphics card, you need to plug your monitor or input directly into the HDMI port on the card. When that port isn’t working, you may be unable to use your graphics card – which is a problem if it’s the only port you need. Luckily, not all problems with a GPU HDMI port mean there’s a hardware issue. Sometimes you can fix it with a bit of software troubleshooting....

Securityresearchers have discovered that malicious actors have been using ZIP file concatenation to avoid the detection of the malware within. This technique involves combining multiple ZIP files, with the malware stored in one of the inner archives, making it harder for anti-malware software to discover. Furthermore, researchers atPerception Point(h/tBleepingComputer) noted that the different ways the three most popular file archivers — 7zip, WinRAR, and Windows File Explorer — handle concatenated archives affect detection rates in this type of attack....

AMD launched a slew of new CPU products atCES, all of which were covered extensively by Tom’s Hardware. Here’s your first look at all the CPUs intact and delidded, showcasing the beautiful internals and allowing us to appreciate the meticulous engineering behind each chip. Fire Range Fire Range, which falls under AMD’s umbrella of Ryzen 9000HX processors, employs desktop-grade silicon geared at workstations, with V-Cache-equipped variants for gamers as well. The CPU boasts two Zen 5-based CCDs (Core Complex Dies) with an IOD (I/O Die) beneath, mirroring desktop Ryzen 9000 processors....

Sony’s highly acclaimedHorizon Forbidden West is coming to PC, with the help of Nixxes, and the system requirements have been posted. Similar to Sony’s previous PC ports, the new PC version comes with a plethora of PC-exclusive features, including21:9 and 32:9 ultrawidesupport,Nvidia DLSS 3 support, and an uncapped frame rate.The PC version will arrive as a Complete Edition, featuring the base game and the Burning Shores add-on that includes new storylines, characters, and gameplay....

The Graphics card handles all graphics-related tasks on your computer. Anywhere from loading a wallpaper to rendering videos, it handles it all. The graphic card processes all, if not most, graphics-intensive tasks. So, knowing your graphic card provides you with an idea about how much the card can perform. Here are a few ways you cancheck the detail of the graphics cardin your windows 11 system. Using the Device Manager The Device Manager contains information about all the devices, directly or indirectly, connected to the computer....

Your Firefox browser stores all of your browsing history like search, cookies, cache, active logins, site data, and so on. If you share your device with someone else, you might like to keep your browsing history private. In such cases, you can clear your Firefox history to get rid of all your browsing data. You can also configure Firefox to automatically delete your browsing history when it closes. So, let’s see how you can clear your Firefox history on different operating systems....

With the way storage devices are designed, users will first need to allocate the installed drives in their system to use them. Without allocating first, Windows will not show the disk or allow users to store data. A SSD can be labelled as unallocated when they are newly purchased and have not been initialized or when the existing partitions have been deleted. Unallocated error can also occur when the drive has been formatted with file system that is not supported by the device or if the partition table has been corrupted or deleted....

Steam is the biggest gaming platform in the world. It’s the place to buy and launch games and join up with others using the same system. Each Steam account has a “Level” section. The leveling system intertwines the platform with the achievements you earn playing. Once you reach level 10, you can customize a showcase for your profile page. Then, every ten levels, you gain additional showcases. Just like in any RPG, you gain XP by performing specific tasks....