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How do people print text on GUI on Win3.1/95/98/... before Win2000?
Awarded Jul 21 at 9:50
Which Old World ROM machines could officially run OS X?
Awarded Jul 20 at 4:56
What was the purpose of the SCAN commands on the Intel 8272 / NEC μPD765 floppy disk controllers?
Awarded Jul 18 at 1:38
What is stored in the 0x0010 to 0x0100 offset range of classic Mac resource forks?
Awarded Jul 17 at 6:48
What happened to the job market for assembly programmers once high level languages became mainstream?
Awarded Jul 11 at 23:20
Identify this bouncing ball screensaver in DOS
Awarded Jul 10 at 20:15
Mac Mini G4 not reinitialized
Awarded Jul 7 at 16:34
What non-Spectrum computers did Sinclair sell 4 million of?
Awarded Jul 6 at 23:09
Usage of Windows default 20-color palette
Awarded Jul 2 at 12:30
Is the FOCAL syntax for Alphanumeric Numbers ("0XYZ") documented anywhere?
Awarded Jul 1 at 10:42
Was BCD a limiting factor on 6502 speed?
Awarded Jun 30 at 14:15
BIOS support for 286 Protected Mode
Awarded Jun 25 at 9:04
Why did the UNIVAC 1100-series Exec-8 O/S call the @ character "master space?"
Awarded Jun 20 at 21:57
Why did Acorn use the 6502?
Awarded Jun 20 at 3:55
Why was the SNES color gamut RGB?
Awarded Jun 19 at 12:02
Where can one find "the Puzzle benchmark" from Hennessy’s MIPS paper?
Awarded Jun 18 at 2:57
Why was the 1540 a computer in its own right?
Awarded Jun 13 at 15:11
How reliable is the floppy content listing information on a C64?
Awarded Jun 11 at 18:40
What was the 6-bit length instruction(s) in the Intel iAPX 432?
Awarded Jun 11 at 14:02
How is the Apple II text flash mode timed?
Awarded Jun 10 at 18:25
Graphics Editor for 16-Bit Games
Awarded Jun 10 at 1:41
Which program is used in this shot of the movie "The Wrong Woman"
Awarded Jun 8 at 7:36
How did wolfenstein do 3D graphics when 3D graphics couldn't exist?
Awarded Jun 6 at 17:16
How did ALT + F4 become the shortcut for closing?
Awarded Jun 6 at 17:16
Why does Windows still use FAT and NTFS for filesystems?
Awarded Jun 5 at 19:48
Is there a technical reason why Datel Action Replay on PC required a card?
Awarded May 30 at 12:06
Why would email transmission change the 6-char sequence "0rom "?
Awarded May 26 at 14:30
Was the purported 1968 standard for encoding ASCII on punched cards ever used?
Awarded May 21 at 18:01
Did Windows 2.x actually receive support until end of 2001?
Awarded May 21 at 16:51
Is there any DOS game before Quake era (1996) that makes heavy use of the FPU?
Awarded May 19 at 18:37
How does the 8086 jump instruction work when the target address overflows?
Awarded May 14 at 12:52
What's the story behind the "mysterious" 486DX3?
Awarded May 11 at 14:25
Why did Acorn use LF+CR instead of CR+LF as a line ending?
Awarded Apr 29 at 22:18
In the RL02 disk system, why does the “read” command take CHS coordinates, when there is also a separate “seek” command?
Awarded Apr 20 at 12:41
Using audio tape recorders on non-personal computers?
Awarded Apr 18 at 3:16
Educational DOS game involving teddy bears
Awarded Apr 17 at 21:06
After creating HTML, why did Tim Berners-Lee bother creating HTTP? Why didn't he just write a HTML renderer for a FTP client?
Awarded Apr 16 at 5:50
High-capacity floppy drives from the early 2000s, what were they?
Awarded Apr 14 at 16:40
Is there any way to read current Interrupt Mode in Z80 machine code?
Awarded Apr 14 at 13:35
When did the floppy disk icon become the standard symbol for the “save” function in user interfaces?
Awarded Apr 13 at 1:58
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century?
Awarded Apr 10 at 17:42
What does an ADC (add with carry) instruction following ADD do?
Awarded Apr 10 at 15:11
What is an SS97 interface?
Awarded Apr 8 at 17:05
Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
Awarded Apr 5 at 20:49
Please identify this program for Acorn Archimedes
Awarded Apr 5 at 13:35
What technological limitations required the "box" system in gen 1 Pokémon games?
Awarded Apr 4 at 5:47
How does the sequence $C3, $C2, $CD translate to "CBM"?
Awarded Apr 1 at 19:05
Can you switch the ZX81 ROM to RAM w/o write protecting it and still use ZX81 BASIC?
Awarded Mar 31 at 19:35
What is the oldest free Assembler targeting the 386 CPU
Awarded Mar 31 at 19:35
What was the first database to start compressing in situ?
Awarded Mar 30 at 21:28
Was the MS-DOS window in Windows 95 an emulator like current DOSBox?
Awarded Mar 27 at 7:21
Historically speaking, why is man-db a separate package that is not part of the GNU project?
Awarded Mar 24 at 19:56
Is it possible to know which lines in the Gameboy Color cartridge connection is missing by looking at the glitched Nintendo logo?
Awarded Mar 17 at 13:52
Weak bits on floppy for copy protection
Awarded Mar 15 at 22:17
How is FSTSW AX implemented on the 80286/80287?
Awarded Mar 13 at 12:42
Why is the addressing mode for BRK defined as "stack" in the W65C02S datasheet?
Awarded Mar 10 at 8:26
Why does PC video memory base address change depending on video mode?
Awarded Mar 6 at 12:18
How did Microsoft take over Winsocks (Windows Sockets)?
Awarded Mar 6 at 4:30
Atari SIO vs IEEE 488
Awarded Mar 4 at 16:17
DOS: How do I type an ANSI escape sequence?
Awarded Mar 4 at 14:26
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