Retrocomputing Beta

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Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
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Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
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Cannot “see” a SCSI2SD device from a Mac SE/30 in any configuration
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Sun Ultrasparc 1 creator monitor
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Is an LG 43UK6200PLA television set supposed to be able to display video output from a Nintendo 64?
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What should be the waveform for ZX Spectrum tapes?
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What should be the waveform for ZX Spectrum tapes?
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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86?
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Was there anything about the “power of the NES” that made Super Mario Bros. have “realistic physics”?
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How did dusty deck Fortran handle overflow?
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ZX81 screen corrupted
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Cleaning 5¼" floppy drives
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Why is EEPROM called ROM if it can be written to?
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Why is EEPROM called ROM if it can be written to?
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How were binary subroutines embedded in Integer BASIC programs?
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Was Family BASIC for the NES/Famicom powerful enough to create full games and applications?
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How to connect an HX-20 to a monitor via the RS232 port?
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Help identifying a very old computer: 1974, maybe an NCR
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Was the ProDOS beep part of the kernel or just a commonly duplicated piece of code?
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How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?
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What accounted for the cost of ENIAC?
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What accounted for the cost of ENIAC?
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How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?
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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?
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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?
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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?
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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?
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Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?
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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?
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What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for 8-bit CPU's than C?
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Macromedia Flash Desktop API / EXE bundler
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DEMOS commands: Cyrillic or Roman letters? Uppercase or lowercase?
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Identify World War 2 European theater PC wargame circa 1995
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Hardware assisted Graphical User Interface?
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What is the correct name for the old green/amber-on-black monitors, and what are the best vintage models to look for used?
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What's a good term for “instruction cycle count-accurate” emulation / simulation?
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VIC20, VIC-20, or VIC 20?
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How were the popular CPUs of the eighties implemented?
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What was the first computer to support Arabic writing?
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Identifying a game from probably the 80s
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What is the correct name for the old green/amber-on-black monitors, and what are the best vintage models to look for used?
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What is the correct name for the old green/amber-on-black monitors, and what are the best vintage models to look for used?
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What is the correct name for the old green/amber-on-black monitors, and what are the best vintage models to look for used?
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Why are the later revisions of the Motorola 68060 heavily sought after by Amiga fans?
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Where and what was Haunt.bat? A game pre-loaded on a c1992 PC
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Latest web browser compatible with Windows 95 / 98
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CPU frequency / memory wait states at end of the 80s
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Did any SNES games use the fast ROM?
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Why is the unchangable Nintendo Game Boy logo in the cartridge?
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Was the Commodore 128 movable zero page / stack and second block of color RAM actually used?
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Does the industry continue to produce outdated architecture CPUs with leading-edge process?
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Does the “Amiga Client for Novell NetWare” exist?
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Does the “Amiga Client for Novell NetWare” exist?
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When was the first tri-state IC produced?
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Why did DEC develop Alpha instead of continuing with MIPS?
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Is it possible to limit HDD capacity to work on an old computer?
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Did computers come with circuit diagrams?
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How does Symphonie Pro actually work?
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How are Amiga Kickstart Relocation Files (.RTB) created?
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