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Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
Jul 1 '19 at 8:29
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Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Jul 8 '19 at 13:31
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Did arcade monitors have same pixel aspect ratio as TV sets?
Mar 22 '19 at 12:34
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Why does the original Donkey Kong update the screen in a curtain closing pattern?
Nov 6 '18 at 11:22
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What makes MOVEQ quicker than a normal MOVE in 68000 assembly?
Jul 18 '19 at 15:47
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How did Elite on the NES work?
Apr 23 '19 at 13:07
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What makes accurate emulation of old systems a difficult task?
Apr 25 '19 at 8:11
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Why does the Galaksija use SRAM instead of DRAM?
Dec 21 '18 at 10:27
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Why the switch to “Mickey Mouse” (type C14) power cables?
Jun 29 '18 at 9:56
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Why did Commodore 64 cartridge games disappear?
Jun 4 '18 at 9:35
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Why did 8-bit Basic use 40-bit floating point?
Nov 13 '20 at 13:55
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Details of video memory access arbitration in Space Invaders
Jun 24 '19 at 15:04
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What is a subpixel in Super Mario Bros, and how does it relate to wall clipping?
May 27 '19 at 8:37
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What is the most rudimentary input method a platform has ever been programmed in?
Apr 30 '19 at 10:41
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Why did 1950s-60s computers have such wide words?
Sep 6 '20 at 10:42
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What did the 'turbo' button actually do?
May 20 '19 at 11:44
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Reason for gold lines on old ICs?
Nov 19 '18 at 9:21
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What causes that “organic fade to black” effect in classic video games?
Jan 5 at 16:11
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Back in 1984 I wrote some games for Spectrum - Will they still be playable?
Aug 17 '20 at 11:58
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Why was the 6809 so expensive?
Oct 19 '18 at 8:43
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How did computers generate 'noise' sound files?
Sep 27 '19 at 19:43
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How and why did Intel make the PCI bus “CPU Agnostic”?
Sep 14 '20 at 15:04
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How did Z80 multiprocessing work in the Namco Galaga hardware?
Feb 16 '18 at 9:40
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Why did common floppies never advance past 1.4 MB in size?
Jun 19 '18 at 8:35
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Drilling 720Kb floppies to 'upgrade' them to 1440Kb?
Apr 3 '19 at 11:39
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Why did Windows 95 crash the whole system but newer Windows only crashed programs?
Jul 29 '19 at 9:12
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Source Code Archival in early Game Developement
Jul 2 '19 at 13:46
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Why did the Apple IIe make a hideous noise if you inserted the disk upside down?
Jun 27 '19 at 10:06
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How did Satoru Iwata compress Pokemon GS to fit two regions on a single cartridge?
Jun 26 '19 at 13:12
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How did people program for Consoles with multiple CPUs?
Mar 29 '19 at 9:52
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