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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
While some companies do on purpose obsolence, Nintendo has done the opposite by chance? :D Well, it turns out that SNES are running faster as they age, which is unsual to say the least. It looks like this has been a discovery by Alan Cecil who has shown on Bluesky how the DSP of the console (built by Sony for Nintendo) is getting faster due to it ceramic nature. When the console was released, the DSP should run at 32 khz set by a ceramic resonator at 24.576 Mhz. It turns out that the composition of the ceramics changes under external conditions, and nowadays people from the scene like Cecil have documented how SNES are running faster as they age. How cool is that? https://www.404media.co/super-nintendo-hardware-is-running-faster-as-it-ages/
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Steve
@sdv.eth
Insanely cool. I wonder if this property is something that we can exploit for the computers of day being used decades from now
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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
I think this has been a nice accident. We will not see something like this again, because companies design software and hardware to fail so you can buy again the next new computer, because you cannot do otherwise.
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