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What algorithm did Microsoft use to dither colour in early versions of Windows?

What key factor led to the sudden commercial success of MS Windows with v3.0?

What are the software logos in MORICONS.DLL?

Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?

Simplest system to create an emulator for

What should we do with manuals from the 80s?

What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?

How did the 8086 interface with the 8087 FPU coprocessor?

What's with the Atari 2600 colors on SECAM?

Can an x86 CPU running in real mode be considered to be basically an 8086 CPU?

What was the technical reason behind the octal digits used for CompuServe User IDs?

Use of undocumented opcodes

How do old computer emulators work?

Adding the third floppy drive?

How to keep the instruction prefetcher filled up

Is S-100 alive?

How to do I/O with emulation code?

What "Write your own RPG/Adventure game" books were available for 8-bit computers? [closed]

Is the software available to simulate building a computer from the ground up? For example a system based on the 6502 [closed]