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I help people write code, when I'm not needing help myself. I use Firefox.

I'm a moderator on Retrocomputing Stack Exchange. (It turns out that moderatoring is hard.)

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How is it possible that classic 3D video games such as Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time can contain such bizarre "glitches"?
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How was early randomness generated?
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Why was BASIC built into so many operating systems?
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Why does the Minus World exist?
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Why does nobody attempt to build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine?
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Why does the kill-screen glitch occur in Pac-man?
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What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?
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Why does the Minus World exist?
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What protocol do Teletypes use?
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How did the Z80 instruction set differ from the 8080?
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