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Why do sprites lag behind a scrolling map in first-generation Pokémon games?
Awarded Nov 26 at 11:40
Was the second copy of the FAT ever used for anything?
Awarded Nov 25 at 16:46
How were large UNIX installs managed in the 80s/90s?
Awarded Nov 20 at 15:55
Did DOS on the early, slow machines ever fail to handle interrupts timely, and what happened if it did?
Awarded Nov 18 at 10:53
Why did CPU designers in the 70s prioritize reducing pin count?
Awarded Nov 13 at 20:55
Why are C64 games inconsistent with which joystick port they use?
Awarded Nov 11 at 20:40
Are pixels on the Commodore 64 square?
Awarded Nov 6 at 17:06
What was the minimum amount of addressable memory? When and why did computers become byte-addressable?
Awarded Oct 22 at 15:46
What is the oldest computer capable of running a modern version of GNU/Linux?
Awarded Oct 19 at 17:23
How were printouts done on Commodore PETs
Awarded Oct 16 at 22:56
Why was video, audio and picture compression the poorest when storage space was the costliest?
Awarded Oct 10 at 7:16
Did any CPU have a special instruction for multiplying or dividing by ten?
Awarded Oct 2 at 20:03
Where and when did the ".s" suffix for assembly-language source files originate?
Awarded Sep 25 at 16:28
An MS-DOS program I would like to run exits with “Program too big to fit in memory”. What tool can I use to reverse-engineer and patch this out?
Awarded Sep 17 at 10:48
Why is ASCII punctuation in that order?
Awarded Sep 17 at 5:03
When did the transition from static to dynamic shared libraries happen?
Awarded Sep 16 at 6:13
Did any early RISC OS precursor run on the BBC Micro?
Awarded Sep 13 at 4:26
Why was BASIC on the Commodore 64 one byte shy of 38KiB?
Awarded Sep 12 at 17:00
Difference between machine language and machine code, maybe in the C64 community?
Awarded Sep 10 at 14:35
Most modern C compilers targeting DOS 8086, running on DOS 8086 (16-bit)
Awarded Sep 7 at 14:36
What was the name of the object-oriented C language I used in the 1980s on the Mac
Awarded Sep 5 at 4:06
Where can one read Microsoft Knowledge Base articles?
Awarded Sep 3 at 17:30
Did any x86 CPU optionally trap unaligned access?
Awarded Aug 31 at 6:12
Why were there no 32-bit versions of 65xx CPUs, or 64-bit versions of m68k CPUs?
Awarded Aug 18 at 11:22
Was the ZX Spectrum used for serious number crunching?
Awarded Aug 17 at 8:33
Why did many arcade games have separate sound CPUs?
Awarded Jul 30 at 14:18
Who considered multimedia capability a liability for a business computers, and why?
Awarded Jul 29 at 15:16
Why did many arcade games have separate sound CPUs?
Awarded Jul 29 at 13:12
How much did the 6502 and Z80 cost?
Awarded Jul 28 at 9:38
When and why is fwait necessary when using the 8087 coprocessor?
Awarded Jul 25 at 20:23
Where did the name of Windows XP come from? Was it connected to the Cairo project?
Awarded Jul 25 at 19:35
What problems did Knuth have because TeX and WEB were Pascal instead of C?
Awarded Jul 23 at 22:51
What was the PE subsystem value of 8 (`IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_NATIVE_WINDOWS`) used for?
Awarded Jul 15 at 2:12
How much faster are binaries produced by Modern compilers vs 1980s compilers vs for Retro CPUs/Computers? Binary benchmarks
Awarded Jul 4 at 20:26
What was the first x86 processor to run a virtual machine?
Awarded Jul 2 at 13:32
Was the meaning of ... (ellipsis) for buttons and menus already defined in MS DOS?
Awarded Jun 26 at 20:57
What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles and squares?
Awarded Jun 25 at 13:55
If modern keyboards use 8-bit microcontrollers (due to low cost), what microcontrollers did keyboards for 8-bit/16-bit era of computers use?
Awarded Jun 18 at 11:25
ZX Spectrum Elite are vipers coming out of docking station?
Awarded Jun 12 at 19:16
Why is the Unix command "touch" called touch? How is it related to new/create or update?
Awarded Jun 12 at 8:33
What happened in the graphics card benchmark scandal in the 1980s?
Awarded Jun 11 at 10:40
What did a mouse from before 1988 with 5 buttons look like?
Awarded Jun 6 at 18:07
Why is the PICTURE clause called the PICTURE clause in COBOL?
Awarded Jun 4 at 23:52
Why did CP/M and MS-DOS use the BIOS instead of their own drivers to access hardware?
Awarded Jun 2 at 4:51
How Did 1988 PCs Achieve 12 MHz DRAM Cycles with 80 ns Chips
Awarded May 30 at 9:47
Why did the NES/FC's PPU's OAM use memory that 'decays' over time?
Awarded May 27 at 2:30
How did the Sun-1 handle page faults despite having the original 68000 processor?
Awarded May 26 at 15:00
Why did x86 support self-modifying code without explicit flushes in the 80s and 90s?
Awarded May 17 at 9:42
Why did "protected-mode MS-DOS" never happen?
Awarded May 14 at 19:23
Are retrocomputers best left on or off?
Awarded May 9 at 7:32
Were there 486SX revisions without an FPU on the die?
Awarded May 8 at 8:24
Why do variable names in BASIC need type suffixes?
Awarded Apr 29 at 23:11
Why did x86 support self-modifying code without explicit flushes in the 80s and 90s?
Awarded Apr 28 at 20:06
How were Acorn Archimedes used outside education?
Awarded Apr 25 at 13:33
How did PC games reproduce PCM sounds on PC speakers using PWM when speakers had poor frequency response?
Awarded Apr 24 at 12:56
1990s platform game for UNIX, featuring military-looking characters and steel-construction levels
Awarded Apr 16 at 14:08
Bank switching and extra RAM on the Atari 2600, but there's no R/W line on the cartridge?
Awarded Apr 10 at 18:01
Has any major corporation ever successfully sued Microsoft for intellectual property theft?
Awarded Apr 10 at 16:56
How plausible is this anecdote about "toggling in" an operating system?
Awarded Apr 2 at 10:22
Were there any games running at high refresh rates such as 90 and 120 Hz on computers and consoles of the 80s and 90s?
Awarded Apr 2 at 1:53
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