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How to wrap 32 bits drivers on 64 bits based Windows or even vxd?
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Was the second copy of the FAT ever used for anything?
Awarded Nov 27 at 11:17
How were large UNIX installs managed in the 80s/90s?
Awarded Nov 21 at 21:24
What other computers used this floating-point format?
Awarded Nov 20 at 10:17
How did the Atari 2600's 6507 handle zero page and stack with only 128 bytes of RAM?
Awarded Nov 19 at 22:07
Did DOS on the early, slow machines ever fail to handle interrupts timely, and what happened if it did?
Awarded Nov 19 at 7:43
Did the original Japanese Tamagotchi device really die *completely* (forever) if the digital pet died? [closed]
Awarded Nov 17 at 15:05
Spectrum DIY upgrade to 48K
Awarded Nov 3 at 20:45
How were the test registers used on the i386 and the i486?
Awarded Nov 3 at 14:37
Help identifying a very old computer: 1974, maybe an NCR
Awarded Oct 31 at 17:18
Atari 800 CPU - 6502 vs. Sally
Awarded Oct 31 at 14:22
Would a multi button controller have been possible on the C64?
Awarded Oct 28 at 1:11
Were cassette tapes designed to be adjusted by pencils? [closed]
Awarded Oct 25 at 17:20
How to quit MBASIC and return to CP/M?
Awarded Oct 24 at 7:57
What was the minimum amount of addressable memory? When and why did computers become byte-addressable?
Awarded Oct 22 at 13:45
Has there ever been a instruction set architecture that did not require instruction decoding at all?
Awarded Oct 17 at 4:42
Were warning messages at the beginning of 90's - 00's Capcom and Konami games mandated by anybody?
Awarded Oct 17 at 3:51
How did the Fairchild Channel F provide a 2K frame buffer?
Awarded Oct 16 at 19:35
Are there standard DIN pinouts for cassette and video ports on early Japanese 8-bit computers?
Awarded Oct 16 at 17:50
Why did Steve Jobs choose the Motorola 68030@25 MHz for the first NeXT Computer in 1988 and not an Intel 80386DX@25 MHz processor?
Awarded Oct 15 at 2:06
Why is the PICTURE clause called the PICTURE clause in COBOL?
Awarded Oct 14 at 21:34
What is this unusual syntax for the Commodore SYS command?
Awarded Oct 12 at 14:34
Which version of InstallShield can produce an installer showing three vertical meter bars, and how to do it?
Awarded Oct 12 at 0:03
What is the easiest way to access/convert Lotus NSF files?
Awarded Oct 8 at 8:03
NTSC scan lines and vertical resolution
Awarded Oct 7 at 20:36
Amiga floppy disks and GCR vs MFM
Awarded Oct 6 at 16:12
Dumping and archiving C64 disks
Awarded Oct 1 at 0:42
Why does an Amiga's floppy drive keep clicking?
Awarded Sep 29 at 17:12
What is the technical definition of "clone" that makes the K1810VM88 (К1810ВМ88) not a clone of the 8088?
Awarded Sep 27 at 20:17
When was the end of the floppy-only IBM PC clone?
Awarded Sep 27 at 13:23
How did Sony, Panasonic and Mitsumi CD-ROM drives differ from the later ATAPI standard?
Awarded Sep 20 at 4:08
Where can I find a Windows 10 driver for old Syquest Drives?
Awarded Sep 20 at 0:43
Why is ASCII punctuation in that order?
Awarded Sep 17 at 21:47
Did any early RISC OS precursor run on the BBC Micro?
Awarded Sep 13 at 20:48
What are these keys on the БК-0010-series keyboards, and what do they do?
Awarded Sep 13 at 17:14
Was the C64's "Bytes Free" message hard coded to show 38911 bytes?
Awarded Sep 12 at 7:14
Why was BASIC on the Commodore 64 one byte shy of 38KiB?
Awarded Sep 10 at 19:35
What was the first two-panel file manager for DOS?
Awarded Sep 9 at 14:50
Largest memory peripheral for Sinclair ZX81?
Awarded Sep 9 at 13:47
Is there any significant difference in Sinclair BASIC of ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum?
Awarded Sep 8 at 2:49
How did the 6502 CPU get its name?
Awarded Sep 5 at 21:52
Did any processor (ISA) ever exist which didn't have well-defined signed overflow?
Awarded Sep 5 at 11:51
Is there a seamless, Wine-like AmigaOS emulator for Linux, specifically for text-based programs?
Awarded Sep 5 at 8:11
Was there ever a time in the 90s when thermoelectric cooling was popular?
Awarded Sep 4 at 12:58
Compression techniques used in old ZX Spectrum tapes
Awarded Aug 30 at 20:50
Is it possible to PRINT AT 23,0 in ZX Spectrum BASIC?
Awarded Aug 30 at 9:31
How did Mode 3 on the Amstrad CPC work?
Awarded Aug 29 at 15:13
Origin of "640K RAM is enough" quote
Awarded Aug 26 at 23:51
Imaging a HDD from DOS over Serial
Awarded Aug 20 at 18:36
Are .COM executable binaries real mode or protected mode?
Awarded Aug 20 at 9:51
Why was the original Apple Computer labeled as the Apple I?
Awarded Aug 19 at 18:57
Obscure uses of the Commodore 8050/1541 disk drive
Awarded Aug 18 at 4:52
Looking for very old, very bad rand()
Awarded Aug 17 at 0:11
How did the Address Decode for Apple II Expansion Cards Work?
Awarded Aug 16 at 9:52
How can I have the user input a string and then do comparisons on it in a batch file in MS-DOS?
Awarded Aug 16 at 9:03
What is the best way to connect an old Tandberg QIC tape drive using today's computers?
Awarded Aug 14 at 10:18
What ways are there to "PEEK" of memory sections in (different) BASIC(s)?
Awarded Aug 13 at 14:55
Is it a Directory, a List, or a Catalogue?
Awarded Aug 12 at 6:09
What is the memory layout in MS-DOS
Awarded Aug 11 at 15:06
What's the convention for < > low/high-byte in 8-bit assembler?
Awarded Aug 11 at 13:16
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