Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Would you be willing to take in the following question?: Is there a procedure to dissassemble ROMs with a header?
Is there a procedure to disassemble ROMs with a header?
While this is a reverse engineering question, it also concerns a very retro computer and there may be simply more expertise on your site.
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How to react to "contact me" answers?
Here's an answer I've got, the salient part of which is "Contact me for information".
It appears that the author has not realized that there is no private message mechanism, nor notification ...
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How many “identify this” tags do we need?
We currently have six “identify this” tags:
identify-this-software
identify-this-game
identify-this-computer
identify-this-card
identify-this-peripheral
identify-this-book
But every once in a while, ...
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The dozens of questions and answers that I posted over the last year disappeared. Why?
They're not in the deleted questions or answers lists. How can they all disappear like that, even from my deleted questions?
Has it happened to other people? Was this a system bug?
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Why was my answer to the “why are assemblers called that” question deleted?
This is my reply. Why did you delete it?
[ This answer is hidden. This answer was deleted and converted to a comment 9 days ago by wizzwizz4♦. ]
I always assumed it was because it assembled the ...
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Why does the -X question need more focus, when the DOS question doesn't?
This question is about Why did so many OS names end in "x?" [closed] and Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?.
The questions are very similar, (but ...
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Do we need separate tags for Windows 95, 98 and Me?
We have three separate tags for the series of Windows releases collectively known as Windows 9x. I collected some statistics to assess whether they are more often used together or stand-alone:
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Is requesting the community to peer-review and provide feedback on source code appropriate?
I've been working on a short piece of 6502 assembly and I now have a working implementation. However, I think it would be useful to get some feedback from community members that are more experienced ...
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Why close 5-year old questions?
There seems to me to have been a minor spate of close votes on old questions. The most recent example, prompting this meta post, is this question.
I'm not really seeing the point of closing old ...
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Do we need both [floppy-disk] and [floppy-drive]?
I think floppy-disk and floppy-drive have sufficiently intertwined scopes that there is little sense in distinguishing between them. Either a floppy disk or a floppy drive is useful primarily in the ...
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Where to draw the line with IBM mainframe questions?
Due to the extreme backward compatibility of IBM mainframes, I think it can be harder to tell than for most other systems where to draw the line between retrocomputing questions and non-retrocomputing ...
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Why is rwallace's question about Acorn being closevoted?
This question
Why did Acorn use the 6502?
is receiving close votes!
I found this surprising, since my very similar question, Why did Sinclair choose the Z80 for its range of home computers?, was well-...
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Based on my long search, I have a detailed answer to this question and would like to answer it for the benefit of the community if it can be opened
I had asked a question about the demonstrated capabilities of the pioneering Mark I Perceptron.
While it generated significant interest from some of the experts, others considered it a bad question ...
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Retag request for questions about Atari 8-bit computers
It seems that most of the questions tagged here as atari-400 or atari-800 actually apply to multiple Atari 8-bit computer models. I propose that we introduce an atari-8-bit tag for questions that ...
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