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How can I construct a dial-up network in my home, purely for the kicks?
Awarded Sep 3 '20 at 4:45
Why did many 9-pin printers use only 8 pins for graphics?
Awarded Jun 11 '20 at 21:46
Was it possible programmatically to manipulate the volume as well as the pitch on computers with no sound chip?
Awarded May 4 '20 at 10:20
What ways are there to “PEEK” of memory sections in (different) BASIC(s)?
Awarded Aug 29 '19 at 10:40
What limits Amiga 68030/40/60 accelerators to 256 MiB of RAM?
Awarded Jul 24 '19 at 19:05
Why were 3D games on the Amiga not faster than on similar 16 bit systems like the Atari ST
Awarded Sep 19 '18 at 14:35
Is the metal shielding required in all-in-one Amiga models?
Awarded Aug 23 '18 at 10:50
BBC/Acorn BASIC, what made it so fast?
Awarded May 20 '18 at 10:42
Can modern AI be used to program impressive graphics effects on very low performance home-retrocomputers, in particular 'A 3D-rotating-cube'
Awarded Mar 24 '18 at 8:11
Uptime in ZX BASIC
Awarded Feb 23 '18 at 14:16
The history of the NULL pointer
Awarded Feb 7 '18 at 2:01
Why did 80×25 become the text monitor standard?
Awarded Feb 5 '18 at 17:28
ZX Spectrum tokenisation
Awarded Jan 26 '18 at 17:49
What's the difference between “opcode” and “instruction” in this Zilog ad?
Awarded Dec 29 '17 at 19:18
What is the relative code density of 8-bit microprocessors?
Awarded Aug 13 '17 at 20:58
What protocol do Teletypes use?
Awarded Aug 9 '17 at 17:57
80s DRAM chips: one per bit of data bus width?
Awarded Jul 30 '17 at 18:26
Did any system natively use 3-bitplane graphics?
Awarded Jul 21 '17 at 0:13
Why did Commodore not upgrade OCS straightforwardly to 32-bit architecture?
Awarded Jun 22 '17 at 19:48
Why did base64 win against uuencode?
Awarded Jun 3 '17 at 21:17
What's the TUBE interface of the BBC micro all about?
Awarded May 15 '17 at 15:55
How was early randomness generated?
Awarded Feb 5 '17 at 20:28
Documentation for the ZX Spectrum ULA
Awarded Jul 28 '16 at 20:18
Why use static RAM addresses instead of the stack?
Awarded May 18 '16 at 15:00
Why are there two, different, Kickstart 1.3 ROMs with the same 34.5 version number?
Awarded May 6 '16 at 6:24

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