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Is this SpeedDOS chip mounted right in my C64?
Awarded Jul 28 at 12:04
What was the first programming language to use `+` for string concatenation?
Awarded Jul 24 at 15:50
How does Laplink achieve “high speeds” on standard/legacy serial ports?
Awarded Jul 24 at 14:56
What's the origin of terminating strings by setting the high bit of the last character?
Awarded Jul 23 at 18:32
What are the “other crontabs” that /etc/crontab refer to? [closed]
Awarded Jul 21 at 19:34
Identify this 1990s-era educational game featuring kohlrabi
Awarded Jul 20 at 20:27
How would old software using the SIGPIPE signal really work if it were to manage _many_ pipes?
Awarded Jul 18 at 21:31
How did Mega-Lo-Mania's save state system work?
Awarded Jul 18 at 17:50
ZX Spectrum coordinates to bitmap conversion subroutine acting strange
Awarded Jul 17 at 20:46
What would be the value on the data bus for a Jupiter ACE with the Z80 Interrupt Mode 2?
Awarded Jul 14 at 20:12
Can a Japanese (or US) PSU for Nintendo 64 be run with 230 V mains?
Awarded Jul 14 at 16:12
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 12 at 13:49
DOSBox problem reading floppy boot sector using INT 0x13 on a drive mounted using MOUNT
Awarded Jul 11 at 14:56
The Slowest Microprocessor [closed]
Awarded Jul 7 at 18:51
What is the name of the video signal recognized by this monitor?
Awarded Jul 3 at 9:25
Why were single quotes ('…') chosen for characters, and double quotes (“…”) for strings?
Awarded Jun 26 at 15:42
Is there a way to work around the maximum clock rate of Z80 PIO chips?
Awarded Jun 26 at 15:20
How were “catalog” picture files created? [closed]
Awarded Jun 26 at 14:03
Did COBOL have an English-like “or” operator?
Awarded Jun 24 at 11:10
Is it true that “do … done” blocks in Bash do not end with “od” because od existed before Bash/Bourne?
Awarded Jun 23 at 8:46
Can I retrobright using Oxycream (used in hair dyes)?
Awarded Jun 22 at 6:51
Is there a way to use .ident or * (PC) in numeric macro variables (using .set)?
Awarded Jun 20 at 21:56
How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)
Awarded Jun 20 at 11:48
What is the (standardized) weight of a 3.5 inch floppy disk?
Awarded Jun 18 at 20:15
9-pin vs 10-pin serial port ribbon cables
Awarded Jun 14 at 22:12
How was the wiring color order of the modular connector determined?
Awarded Jun 14 at 11:35
How was end-of-file stored on a Commodore 1541 disk? [duplicate]
Awarded Jun 12 at 18:16
What's the easiest way to change from MS-DOS 6.22 to DR-DOS?
Awarded Jun 11 at 10:56
How does an 8086 CPU remember the memory address where it should write back the operation’s result? [closed]
Awarded Jun 7 at 13:03
Why does the ZX81 not have user definable characters without extra hardware i.e. why could the character ROM not be in RAM?
Awarded Jun 6 at 0:18
An old game with skeletons and other creatures
Awarded May 28 at 14:00
Is the only reason that my PAL NES is able to run NTSC/American games that it's doing it on an EverDrive?
Awarded May 27 at 0:21
How do I terminate an ISA bus correctly?
Awarded May 23 at 10:20
What is the name of the publishing software used at IBM in the late 80s?
Awarded May 20 at 10:21
M68k Big Endian to Little Endian
Awarded May 19 at 11:48
How did voice dialing work in old Nokia phones?
Awarded May 19 at 9:52
What, if any, available older versions of Linux distributions does xroach gracefully run on?
Awarded May 18 at 12:03
What was the “32-bit” ISA bus (connector) extension for 80386 PCs?
Awarded May 14 at 6:56
How can I install debug VXDs from the Windows 98 DDK?
Awarded May 14 at 3:35
32-bit PCI riser cards: different types?
Awarded May 12 at 13:20
How was a demo mode implemented in arcade machines
Awarded May 11 at 17:01
Where does the 6502 store the low order byte after fetching for read instructions?
Awarded May 4 at 19:59
Why did Visual Basic use parentheses for both function call and array access?
Awarded Apr 30 at 0:49
Basic09 to Windows7
Awarded Apr 27 at 23:28
Apple II Toggles between 40 and 80 columns in assembly language (Apple IIc)
Awarded Apr 25 at 20:42
CRT Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 1000 black screen: flashes BIOS logo during boot, but otherwise black
Awarded Apr 21 at 13:56
What could be the reason an `LD B, B` instruction was used in this busy loop?
Awarded Apr 20 at 21:52
8088 CPU A16-A19 address lines go crazy with nop test after 0FFFF address
Awarded Apr 12 at 22:56
Startup behavior of Gameboy - what to replicate in an emulator? [closed]
Awarded Apr 11 at 20:11
Why does the 6502 JSR instruction only increment the return address by 2 bytes?
Awarded Apr 10 at 17:35
3.5″ floppy drive shown as 5.25″ in Windows 98 SE
Awarded Apr 8 at 18:00
Basilisk II how mount unix filesystem
Awarded Apr 3 at 12:26
C64 KERNAL Loading into I/O space [duplicate]
Awarded Apr 1 at 21:15
What is the correct name for the old green/amber-on-black monitors, and what are the best vintage models to look for used?
Awarded Mar 29 at 15:16
Who are the people associated with Simula, Assembler and Fortran in this video?
Awarded Mar 28 at 17:16
Why are the later revisions of the Motorola 68060 heavily sought after by Amiga fans?
Awarded Mar 25 at 3:50
Z80, do I need a resistor for pins to Vcc?
Awarded Mar 24 at 10:47
How did the Apple IIGS automatically slow 5.25 inch disk I/O code for backwards compatability?
Awarded Mar 23 at 22:56
Was there a hard disk format countdown easter egg hidden in the Windows 95 installer?
Awarded Mar 17 at 2:26
Could a BBC Micro power supply be replaced with USB power?
Awarded Mar 16 at 9:43
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