hardware preservation

  1. Oasis Driver: Reviving Windows Mixed Reality with Native SteamVR/OpenXR

    August 29, 2025 delivered an unexpected lifeline to owners of aging Windows Mixed Reality headsets: a new native SteamVR driver called Oasis that restores direct SteamVR/OpenXR compatibility for devices left orphaned after Microsoft deprecated the Mixed Reality Portal. (roadtovr.com) Background...
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  2. Running Windows 8.1 in EGA: A Retro Emulation Experiment

    When a modern operating system built for multicore CPUs and GPU-accelerated compositing is forced to run in a display mode designed before many readers were born, the result is part engineering curiosity and part living museum exhibit — and that’s exactly what happened when Windows 8.1 was...
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