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Understanding Mario and screen position in “NES-Super Mario Bros”
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Any ways to have an architecture with a different base than base16? [closed]
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What was novel about the Atari ST? Did it introduce any innovations?
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Does anybody have the PDP-11 CAPS-11 source code?
Awarded Jun 28 at 21:52
Do all Intel Celeron processors support “FCOMIP”? [closed]
Awarded Jun 25 at 8:02
Why did IBM 7030 or IBM 360 use byte and word addressing simultaneously
Awarded Jun 24 at 14:06
What is the origin of this bizarre advert of people wearing swimsuits in a room with computer hardware?
Awarded Jun 23 at 10:21
What’s the last x86 CPU that didn’t place a limit on the size of a single instruction?
Awarded Jun 20 at 15:51
Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
Awarded Jun 20 at 3:35
Address of ISR for Interrupt INT 13H
Awarded Jun 16 at 21:48
What are these weird long ISA slots on this 386 board? (not VLB)
Awarded Jun 16 at 5:40
Identifying late 1990s embedded 486 UNIX-like system
Awarded Jun 15 at 13:48
Why when outputting registers' value the result is a wrong fluctuating value in a Z80 CPU?
Awarded Jun 14 at 7:50
Opening a .zbd file
Awarded Jun 12 at 12:52
Webservers: When did www.domain.net/dir/file.html first not point to $WWWROOT/dir/file.html but to something virtualized?
Awarded Jun 12 at 6:46
Why was 'echo on' chosen as the default setting within batch scripts in MS-DOS?
Awarded Jun 10 at 17:02
What were the HW specifications for the actual PC speakers, before they were replaced by buzzers?
Awarded Jun 9 at 9:47
On the LR35902, what does the assembly 'LD (HL-),A' do?
Awarded Jun 8 at 0:04
How does the RST operation of GameBoy (SHARP LR35902) work?
Awarded Jun 7 at 21:20
Why does MS-DOS 5.0 EDIT hang on my XT-class machine with a German 102-key keyboard?
Awarded Jun 5 at 17:55
What are D64, T64, D71 and D81 files?
Awarded Jun 3 at 19:25
Modern Alternative to Malvino's Digital Computer Electronics
Awarded Jun 3 at 19:05
How can Windows 98 shut down in less than 5 seconds?
Awarded May 30 at 3:34
What is the format of the static libraries shipping with legacy Microsoft C for DOS?
Awarded May 29 at 19:07
The 8086 has AAM (ASCII Adjust after Multiply), why not the same for packed BCD?
Awarded May 29 at 0:25
Windows NT 3.51 title bar buttons
Awarded May 28 at 10:05
How are the index registers on the Censor 932 accessed?
Awarded May 27 at 9:18
Why is the processor instruction called “move”, not “copy”?
Awarded May 26 at 20:56
Would having the console's CPU help in emulation hypothetically?
Awarded May 25 at 21:51
Is there any virtual hard disk driver over serial port?
Awarded May 25 at 18:04
What happened to the 65832?
Awarded May 24 at 20:41
Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Awarded May 24 at 19:56
How to get into Apple BASIC prompt on an Apple IIc?
Awarded May 23 at 16:21
Is it true that Pentium III was faster than its successor Pentium 4?
Awarded May 23 at 13:56
Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?
Awarded May 21 at 23:27
How did 68k-based Macs (or other contemporary systems) detect how much RAM was installed?
Awarded May 21 at 21:20
Please Identify this Apple II Diagnostic Message: “IOU FLAG E5: 1 2 3 4 8”
Awarded May 19 at 7:02
What was a “Windows protection error”?
Awarded May 18 at 11:10
Why were optical drives not used as secondary storage instead of magnetic drives?
Awarded May 16 at 10:10
Commodore 64 board dimensions
Awarded May 15 at 21:50
What's the name of this CRT monitor?
Awarded May 15 at 6:48
What warning was given on attempting to post to USENET, circa 1990?
Awarded May 14 at 7:28
Who built the first electric/electronic adder?
Awarded May 11 at 12:47
How to connect a Dragon32 to a HD TV?
Awarded May 8 at 10:57
keyboard not operating electronica-bk-0100-01
Awarded May 7 at 10:36
How does the shift key in a keyboard work?
Awarded Apr 30 at 16:24
“SAP” microcomputers vs real microcomputers
Awarded Apr 30 at 2:56
Networking WfW 3.11 between modern ethernet and 56k internal modem card
Awarded Apr 29 at 23:36
How did large .COM files work?
Awarded Apr 26 at 6:25
Why does the .z80 emulator-snapshot format have separate fields for the 8-bit refresh register and bit 7 of R?
Awarded Apr 19 at 8:55
How do I extract the program from the Radiohead “Nude” tribute by James Houston?
Awarded Apr 16 at 14:17
How does Windows 9x determine which disk drivers correspond to which BIOS disks/DOS drive letters?
Awarded Apr 16 at 13:04
Which computers used the Intel 82786 graphics chips, and what sort of commercial success did that chip attain?
Awarded Apr 16 at 11:00
Inverting the carry flag on an M6800
Awarded Apr 16 at 10:40
Why did 8-bit computers choose BASIC dialects as “de facto” command-line interface, instead of contemporary Shell/Lisp dialects?
Awarded Apr 14 at 7:05
How can I fix this clacking sound made by the Game Boy speaker?
Awarded Apr 12 at 15:10
Are there standalone emulators of Applesoft Basic?
Awarded Apr 12 at 4:15
Data length module of 3.2^n confusion in IBM system/360 architecture
Awarded Apr 10 at 4:35
Is this a mini computer, a novelty monitor or something else? [closed]
Awarded Apr 9 at 22:45
What physical size and density floppies are the intermediate-capacity options for the /F switch of the DOS/Windows/OS/2 FORMAT command meant for?
Awarded Apr 9 at 22:25
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