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What is the TPG file format used in the PlayStation release of Zork I?
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How did old computers address far more than 64K of memory despite only having a 16 bit address bus?
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Why was computer memory so expensive and scarce?
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How did early Minix represent processes
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What kind of RAM stick is this?
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How do I connect a command prompt to a serial line in MS-DOS 6.22?
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What is this game featured in the film ‘The Year of the Jellyfish’?
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Why did Nintendo 64 (1996) memory cards require a battery inside them to retain data whereas the PlayStation (1994) ones did not?
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In Windows 3.11, did a unusual subnet mask actually work?
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Z80 refresh pin, is it tri-state or not
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Where within the Internet Explorer 4 installation files can I find the browser error pages?
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Why we YIQ is composite signal where RGB three different signal? [closed]
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Installing 98SE without USB/CDROM to IDE drive - Invalid System Disk
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Is the source for the original Elite public?
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Why did the Z80 break 8080 compatibility?
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What does this 1970s punched-card format mean?
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How to get the inner dimension for Amiga Intuition window with GIMMEZEROZERO Flag?
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"GAZE" GUI Organizer program?
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Why did the NES not allow rotated sprites?
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Can I image Amiga floppy disks on a modern computer?
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CC65 ignores request to correctly offset memory areas in output files
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Have there been any instruction sets with an odd register width?
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Why was Carrier Command for the ZX Spectrum superior to the C64 version?
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What is purpose of the “CH” button and “CH” switch position on this calculator?
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How were the special effects achieved for the Kraftwerk Die Roboter 1978 music video?
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Usage of Windows default 20-color palette
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Porting use of BASIC to-the-power ^ operator
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What's this computer in the 1988 movie "Vampire's Kiss"?
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6502 ORA not updating the accumulator
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why the result comes out as 1, rather than 2, in this 8086 Subtract with borrow? [closed]
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Name of MS-DOS program that shows realtime update of light/dark map of whole planet
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How does this 8080 code perform division with remainder?
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Apple II Assembly DSECT
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Which computer system defined the IPv4 576 byte datagram limit?
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Cleaning buckling spring keyboards
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What's the minimum number of tubes per bit required to store a register?
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What is the purpose of mirrored memory regions in NES's CPU memory map? [duplicate]
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Digital to analog in an old 35mm film recorder [closed]
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How can I set up the Microsoft C compiler to make it prefer immediate-mode push instructions?
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What happened to MODULA-2?
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How did DOS games manage to have multiple background layers?
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Mid 80's arcade top-down scrolling spaceship shooter with upgradable ship
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Is it possible to swap the Apple IIc's monochrome CRT tube for a color one?
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How should I repaint my Commodore PET?
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Looking for educational AI game for classic Mac OS
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How to repeat a string in C64 BASIC V2?
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Is this SpeedDOS chip mounted right in my C64?
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What was the first programming language to use `+` for string concatenation?
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How does Laplink achieve "high speeds" on standard/legacy serial ports?
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What's the origin of terminating strings by setting the high bit of the last character?
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What are the "other crontabs" that /etc/crontab refer to? [closed]
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Identify this 1990s-era educational game featuring kohlrabi
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How would old software using the SIGPIPE signal really work if it were to manage _many_ pipes?
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How did Mega-Lo-Mania's save state system work?
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ZX Spectrum coordinates to bitmap conversion subroutine acting strange
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What would be the value on the data bus for a Jupiter ACE with the Z80 Interrupt Mode 2?
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Can a Japanese (or US) PSU for Nintendo 64 be run with 230 V mains?
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Why do Game Boy games have explicit save functions, instead of using battery-backed non-volatile cartridge SRAM to store the game state?
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DOSBox problem reading floppy boot sector using INT 0x13 on a drive mounted using MOUNT
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The Slowest Microprocessor [closed]
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