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What exactly was the Amiga Ranger?
Awarded Oct 11 at 4:30
How do you put a 286 in Protected Mode?
Awarded Sep 6 at 5:35
Link N64 object file while preserving relocation data
Awarded Jul 30 at 4:50
Why did the Bell 103 modem use a data rate of 300 bps?
Awarded Jul 25 at 6:05
How to build a workstation to handle bulk quantities of floppy disks?
Awarded Jul 16 at 4:05
What is the oldest computer capable of running a modern version of GNU/Linux?
Awarded Jun 3 at 6:10
The earliest a home-computer or home-robot could be interfaced with a commercially available camera?
Awarded May 30 at 5:50
Troubleshooting and reparing an Atari 800XL with a single key not working
Awarded May 13 at 4:25
Number of transistors in the C64
Awarded Apr 27 at 4:05
NES cartridge ROM emulation with Arduino or Pi?
Awarded Apr 20 at 4:20
What were the selling points of the Atari 800 over the 400?
Awarded Apr 11 at 4:50
Creating a new locale.library language support for AmigaOS
Awarded Mar 16 at 6:20
What were the applications of 5/6-bit serial port formats?
Awarded Feb 20 at 4:20
Z80 and video chip contending for random access
Awarded Feb 17 at 5:25
Why does the Motorola 68000 series require a kernel to be specified during Linux installation?
Awarded Feb 11 at 4:20
What are the differences between the versions of AppleSoft BASIC?
Awarded Feb 10 at 4:10
Make a BASIC TAP file readable on Linux
Awarded Jan 16 at 4:30
How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR?
Awarded Jan 13 at 4:45
How do CGA emulators for Hercules graphics work?
Awarded Jan 5 at 4:30
What typewriters and computers are shown in this commercial?
Awarded Dec 31 '18 at 4:30
How are File Timestamps recorded in classic Mac OS?
Awarded Dec 20 '18 at 4:30
z80 CPU User Manual AND P/V Flag
Awarded Dec 3 '18 at 5:25
Why does this BASIC program declare variables for the numbers 0 to 4?
Awarded Nov 27 '18 at 4:35
What limited the use of the 6809 CPU in personal computers?
Awarded Nov 2 '18 at 4:25
What algorithm did Microsoft use to dither colour in early versions of Windows?
Awarded Nov 2 '18 at 4:25
What was this old athletics game I played?
Awarded Oct 20 '18 at 4:15
Where and what was Haunt.bat? A game pre-loaded on a c1992 PC
Awarded Sep 12 '18 at 4:25
What other computers used this floating-point format?
Awarded Aug 24 '18 at 4:45
To wash or not to wash a Mac SE/30
Awarded Aug 15 '18 at 5:35
Was Amiga the last of the home retrocomputers sold?
Awarded Aug 5 '18 at 4:35
Commodore 64 to modern TV
Awarded Jul 12 '18 at 4:51
What is the starting address pointed by Stack Pointer in PDP 11?
Awarded Jul 5 '18 at 4:31
How was the C language ported to architectures with non-power-of-2 word sizes?
Awarded Jun 25 '18 at 4:11
What key factor led to the sudden commercial success of MS Windows with v3.0?
Awarded Jun 23 '18 at 5:05
What key factor led to the sudden commercial success of MS Windows with v3.0?
Awarded Jun 21 '18 at 16:23
How can tilting a N64 cartridge cause such subtle glitches?
Awarded Jun 21 '18 at 4:12
What are the “Screen Holes” in Apple II graphics?
Awarded Jun 10 '18 at 4:45
Why does the Minus World exist?
Awarded Mar 26 '18 at 4:19
Why does the C64's LIST command choke on REM statements with a Shift+L?
Awarded Mar 16 '18 at 13:37
How do I troubleshoot an 80 column card on an Apple //e?
Awarded Mar 13 '18 at 4:06
How did software engineers test their code in 19xx?
Awarded Mar 12 '18 at 4:41
How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR?
Awarded Mar 6 '18 at 4:08
Conditional skip instructions of the PDP-8
Awarded Mar 5 '18 at 4:35
How do you recognize an early production model Commodore 64?
Awarded Mar 3 '18 at 5:06
Are there any ZX Spectrum applications (mainly games or demoscene productions) that use a port other than $FE to access the ULA?
Awarded Feb 8 '18 at 5:45
What systems used hard sectored floppy disks?
Awarded Dec 27 '17 at 21:52
How did the Amiga 500 left-side expansion port work?
Awarded Dec 25 '17 at 4:39
How did Windows 3.1 implement multitasking?
Awarded Dec 6 '17 at 4:29
What did the cassette bootloader in 8 Bit Ataris do?
Awarded Dec 2 '17 at 4:49
What is the “standard” way to implement KERNAL hooks on the C64?
Awarded Nov 30 '17 at 4:09
How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR?
Awarded Nov 8 '17 at 4:19
R.O.B can't move up or down
Awarded Sep 13 '17 at 4:16
How to access old laptop IDE hard drive
Awarded Aug 17 '17 at 4:04
Why does 6502 indexed LDA take an extra cycle at page boundaries?
Awarded Jun 14 '17 at 4:02
How do I change the CoCo 3 color palette before running a Color Computer ROM Pak?
Awarded Jun 6 '17 at 15:17
Over its lifetime, how many Apple II computers were sold?
Awarded May 9 '17 at 4:03
How can I programmatically tell which version of Apple II my code is on?
Awarded May 8 '17 at 5:29
The smell of a computer while unboxing it
Awarded May 6 '17 at 3:37
What are the differences between the versions of AppleSoft BASIC?
Awarded Apr 29 '17 at 4:33
How do you open an SE/30? (a.k.a. what is a “pull-apart tool”?)
Awarded Apr 7 '17 at 4:05
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