Post #3656135

2026-07-07 18:45 UTC

TIL that for game cheating, you can buy a PCIe FPGA card nicknamed a "DMA" that is used to send a copy of system memory to another PC for processing. You can then use a video compositing box to mix the primary output and the cheat overlays on to your gaming monitor. 😳 I ... hadn't realized game cheating was this serious. 😳

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@pawv@tech.lgbt 2026-07-07 19:09

I was going to rant about how thanks to AI and the RAM shortage, the most interesting tech to me lately seems to be microcontrollers and FPGAs. 🤷 I had just stumbled across the Tang Mega, a 138K LU board based on the Gowin Chinese FPGAs. I thought it was neat to see a readily available board with comparable capabilities to the DE10 Nano (AKA the guts of the popular MiSTer FPGA multi-console gaming devices). Neat! I have some of the smaller Tang FPGA boards with 4k and 20k LUs, but I had no idea they offered 60k and 130k options. OF COURSE I then find a "roadmap" suggesting these came out in 2023/2024??!? 😳 Unfortunately the pricing of the larger FPGA modules is competitive with what I remember some Intel (Altera) and AMD (Xylinx) boards costing... Though I haven't looked into that in quite some time. I greatly prefer Chinese products when they greatly undercut the costs (see Allwinner vs Qualcomm). Ah well. 🤷

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@maddy@thegayagenda.fans 2026-07-07 18:51

@pawv@tech.lgbt Wow, yeah. TIL for me as well!

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