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25 Questions

Why does Windows 1.01 crash at the splash screen?

How can I play QBasic Nibbles on a modern machine?

Why is the ‘auto’ storage class specifier included in C?

Why does the FAT file system have separate ‘hidden’ and ‘system’ attributes?

Why does DOS ask for the current date and time upon booting?

What was the first programming language with generics?

Why can MS-DOS not read partitions starting at logical sector 0?

What was the purpose of those special user accounts in Unix?

How does Windows 9x determine which disk drivers correspond to which BIOS disks/DOS drive letters?

When and where was the ‘dotted sequence of integers’ version numbering scheme invented?

How much of the Program Segment Prefix area can be reused by programs with impunity?

Where did the # (hash, number sign) notation for hexadecimal RGB colour triples originate?

Is there a way to cut idle CPU usage under Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0?

What software used Turbo Vision back in its prime time?

Why do PC DOS kernel files have the COM extension, even though they are not executable as COM files?

What did the SELECT command do in DOS?

What was the purpose of the ‘overlay number’ field in the MZ executable format?

When does an IBM-compatible PC keyboard controller dequeue scancodes?

Is there a generic VBE driver available for Windows 3.x?

Why are there three different settings in the [Paths] section of MSDOS.SYS?

Why are symmetric bi-directional communication port cables not always crossover cables?

How did ‘logically-sectored FAT’ work?

Why do sprites lag behind a scrolling map in first-generation Pokémon games?

Why does the ‘Get Next Selector Increment Value’ DPMI call exist?

A game about defending a castle, with trading-card-like gameplay and aesthetic, in English and Czech