Retrocomputing Beta

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What's the origin of terminating strings by setting the high bit of the last character?
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Save state systems
Awarded Jul 19 at 8:56
How did control characters work in real teletypes?
Awarded Jul 18 at 19:55
ZX Spectrum coordinates to bitmap conversion subroutine acting strange
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Why did some video games apparently use “interlaced” video modes?
Awarded Jul 17 at 16:05
Identify this 1990s-era educational game featuring kohlrabi
Awarded Jul 17 at 7:06
Can a Japanese (or US) PSU for Nintendo 64 be run with 230 V mains?
Awarded Jul 16 at 16:47
Can a Japanese (or US) PSU for Nintendo 64 be run with 230 V mains?
Awarded Jul 16 at 2:17
What would be the value on the data bus for a Jupiter ACE with the Z80 Interrupt Mode 2?
Awarded Jul 14 at 14:10
Why do Game Boy games have explicit save functions, instead of using battery-backed non-volatile cartridge SRAM to store the game state?
Awarded Jul 13 at 13:20
DOSBox problem reading floppy boot sector using INT 0x13 on a drive mounted using MOUNT
Awarded Jul 11 at 17:03
Why was the Nintendo 64 bad at textures?
Awarded Jul 8 at 23:56
Did vacuum-tube computers ever reach a physical limit to their speed?
Awarded Jul 7 at 22:30
Why do some people say PHP was “Pretty Home Page”? Was it once PHP's real name?
Awarded Jul 6 at 17:42
Did SVN copy from CVS the feature of allowing each sub-folder to be at a different revision?
Awarded Jul 6 at 10:41
Why was `!` chosen for negation?
Awarded Jul 3 at 23:32
Why does make only accept tab-indentation?
Awarded Jul 2 at 4:35
Why didn't C++ specify filename extensions?
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Why didn't C++ specify filename extensions?
Awarded Jun 30 at 18:41
What books did schools use to teach BASIC?
Awarded Jun 28 at 15:41
What software used Turbo Vision back in its prime time?
Awarded Jun 28 at 11:18
Why did BASIC programs tend to READ a redundant copy of DATA?
Awarded Jun 25 at 16:26
How were “catalog” picture files created?
Awarded Jun 25 at 13:22
How was digital sound playback achieved on the Commodore 64?
Awarded Jun 25 at 11:42
Why did BASIC programs tend to READ a redundant copy of DATA?
Awarded Jun 24 at 6:17
What happened to Spatial Freedom and the Astroid controller?
Awarded Jun 23 at 10:03
How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)
Awarded Jun 21 at 22:17
How to determine where in RAM the current Basic program resides on Amstrad microcomputers?
Awarded Jun 21 at 20:33
Is it possible to convert a Tandy 1000 EX video signal to SCART?
Awarded Jun 21 at 16:27
How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)
Awarded Jun 21 at 13:10
DOS serial printer formats
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What key factor led to the sudden commercial success of MS Windows with v3.0?
Awarded Jun 21 at 1:56
DOS serial printer formats
Awarded Jun 21 at 1:11
Were there ever 12-, 24-, 48-, etc bit processors?
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Were there ever 12-, 24-, 48-, etc bit processors?
Awarded Jun 20 at 10:26
Why was `!` chosen for negation?
Awarded Jun 17 at 17:57
9-pin vs 10-pin serial port ribbon cables
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Why was `!` chosen for negation?
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Why was `!` chosen for negation?
Awarded Jun 15 at 18:05
What is the (standardized) weight of a 3.5 inch floppy disk?
Awarded Jun 15 at 15:06
Why was `!` chosen for negation?
Awarded Jun 14 at 20:20
6502 reset pin: always needed on power on?
Awarded Jun 10 at 10:11
Ideal resolution for color computer on PAL/SECAM
Awarded Jun 10 at 0:43
Apple II: DOS 3.3 Virus?
Awarded Jun 9 at 15:33
Who were the first engineers to “cleanroom” the IBM PC BIOS?
Awarded Jun 5 at 6:42
Atari800XL Composite video black and white problem
Awarded Jun 3 at 19:21
Teddy Ruxpin Animation Coding “Language”?
Awarded Jun 3 at 18:04
Is there a seamless, Wine-like AmigaOS emulator for Linux, specifically for text-based programs?
Awarded Jun 3 at 13:15
How much of the Program Segment Prefix area can be reused by programs with impunity?
Awarded May 31 at 16:04
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Are there any primary sources for the “passing constant by reference” behavior in old Fortran compilers?
Awarded May 26 at 14:47
TI-99 display interference
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Are there any primary sources for the “passing constant by reference” behavior in old Fortran compilers?
Awarded May 25 at 13:57
Homemade ROM cartridge for Thomson TO7/70 home computer
Awarded May 25 at 12:45
Why were relays prevalent in early 1940s computers when vacuum tubes were also available?
Awarded May 24 at 19:18
Was there an Evans & Sutherland display system capable of rendering ordinary data as motion through a landscape?
Awarded May 21 at 20:12
What are these bus/tag connectors for?
Awarded May 21 at 15:05
Identifying a game from probably the 80s
Awarded May 21 at 13:05
Who invented the clipboard?
Awarded May 20 at 23:57
Why did Visual Basic use parentheses for both function call and array access?
Awarded May 20 at 19:46
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