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Why didn’t the 1980s micros use MC68010?
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Sending an executable to an old Macintosh SE using serial port
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String manipulation in MS-DOS 6.22 batch files
Awarded Jun 17 at 8:20
Is there an equivalent of "#pragma once" in RGBASM (Gameboy DMG assembly language)?
Awarded Jun 14 at 15:25
Is there an obstruction to emulating Gameboy link cable over Wi-Fi?
Awarded Jun 12 at 17:56
What was the first game console to ship with an official C development SDK?
Awarded Jun 9 at 16:22
What was the first operating system to be called an "operating system"?
Awarded Jun 9 at 9:04
Why audio of Prince of Persia (1989) produce in CPU rather than audio speaker? [closed]
Awarded Jun 9 at 7:34
What is the best way to obtain old versions of MS-DOS and Windows?
Awarded Jun 6 at 6:31
Agetty Serial Modem [closed]
Awarded Jun 5 at 18:43
Are PowerPC processors still manufactured and used in desktop computers?
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Awarded Jun 4 at 4:17
Why was the Sega Genesis marketed as a 16-bit console?
Awarded Jun 3 at 19:31
How can I make an 80 GB hard drive work with an Asus P2L97 motherboard?
Awarded Jun 3 at 9:26
How can I make an 80 GB hard drive work with an Asus P2L97 motherboard?
Awarded Jun 3 at 5:07
Where can I find good photos of old chip making equipment?
Awarded May 30 at 20:27
Can you use 5.25 HD floppy disks in a DD drive?
Awarded May 28 at 16:56
Did Windows 2.x actually receive support until end of 2001?
Awarded May 28 at 11:48
How does the BIOS distinguish Interrupt(08h-12h) from INT instructions, vs. actual exceptions inside the CPU?
Awarded May 26 at 13:18
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Awarded May 21 at 23:03
Why does the x86 not have an instruction to obtain its instruction pointer?
Awarded May 21 at 9:33
Fastest 8-bit microprocessor for multiply-accumulate?
Awarded May 19 at 2:56
What was the first games console to be as powerful as the Sega Model 2 board? [closed]
Awarded May 17 at 16:55
Why have MS-DOS device drivers if the ROM BIOS provides access to the same devices already?
Awarded May 14 at 14:56
Which software was the first to use copy protection?
Awarded May 12 at 5:34
How can I resolve these intermittent memory issues?
Awarded May 10 at 23:04
It's now safe to turn off your computer
Awarded May 10 at 16:34
How can I have the user input a string and then do comparisons on it in a batch file in MS-DOS?
Awarded May 4 at 18:36
Over its lifetime, how many Apple II computers were sold?
Awarded May 3 at 21:50
What causes the glitchy sound when a GBA cartridge is removed?
Awarded May 3 at 14:25
Early implementations of the `system()` call in a consumer OS
Awarded May 3 at 12:21
Why was the return key symbol ↵ drawn differently from the motion of a CR-LF?
Awarded May 2 at 19:36
Was the Amiga ever used by any U.S. Government agency?
Awarded Apr 30 at 0:32
Why does the default base64 encoding use forward slash /? [closed]
Awarded Apr 26 at 15:48
What are these electronic components found inside a Schaffer BV 223-5-04008 PSU for the Commodore 128D?
Awarded Apr 21 at 12:55
Can HIMEM.SYS be disabled in Windows ME’s IO.SYS?
Awarded Apr 20 at 15:31
Is there any significant difference in Sinclair BASIC of ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum?
Awarded Apr 19 at 21:06
When and why was the question mark chosen to abbreviate PRINT?
Awarded Apr 19 at 18:55
What is the CMOS cache battery on the Atari STacy motherboard?
Awarded Apr 17 at 14:06
How to get sound working in pure DOS with a CMI8330 card?
Awarded Apr 15 at 11:47
Every single ROM in my collection has the wrong SHA1 hash according to No-Intros
Awarded Apr 11 at 17:25
Fooling a DOS in game timer
Awarded Apr 8 at 2:17
What information was "off limits" to IBM PC clone BIOS authors?
Awarded Apr 3 at 23:41
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Awarded Apr 3 at 20:56
How to determine BIOS-provided (INT 13h) hard disk geometry, and how to fix the MBR partition table to agree with it?
Awarded Apr 3 at 3:05
Loading ZX Spectrum tape audio in a post-cassette world
Awarded Apr 1 at 23:18
Why did C have the return type before function names?
Awarded Apr 1 at 21:01
Did computer games for Commodore 64 really take "25 minutes" to load "if everything went alright"?
Awarded Mar 31 at 21:55
Why are the out-of-bounds areas of Doom distorted on MS-DOS?
Awarded Mar 29 at 6:20
Why are these DOS console drivers wasting precious bytes?
Awarded Mar 28 at 21:33
Spectrum 128K +2 Power Supply Buzzing and over voltage
Awarded Mar 27 at 22:01
What was the small (cheap) atari-2600 compatible personal computer (not legal) called, that you could program 2600 games, in the 80's?
Awarded Mar 23 at 1:10
Identify this old C64 soccer game with "speaker"
Awarded Mar 22 at 18:10
What were the incentives behind WinWord.Concept computer virus?
Awarded Mar 20 at 1:48
Were the VAX eXtended Function Control (XFC) instructions ever used commercially?
Awarded Mar 18 at 23:57
Which computers used the Intel 82786 graphics chips, and what sort of commercial success did that chip attain?
Awarded Mar 16 at 14:30
Comparing raw performance of the Z80 and the 6502
Awarded Mar 14 at 16:49
getting PDP-11 DL11 output via telnet
Awarded Mar 13 at 9:32
How did reserve tracks work on early hard disks?
Awarded Mar 12 at 23:07
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