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What technological factors drove the rise of "high-speed" modems in the early 1990s?

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How did the SNES do the “pixelate” transition effect?

51 votes

Was self-modifying code possible using BASIC?

51 votes

What happened to the SEV instruction on the 6502?

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What was the last x86 processor that didn't have a microcode layer?

47 votes
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What's the relationship between early 90s Pentium microprocessor and today's Intel designs?

46 votes
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Comparing raw performance of the Z80 and the 6502

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Why does the ZX81 not have user definable characters without extra hardware i.e. why could the character ROM not be in RAM?

44 votes
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Were there any games running at high refresh rates such as 90 and 120 Hz on computers and consoles of the 80s and 90s?

41 votes

What techniques were used to reduce the required re-rendering in 3D programs?

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Why do all the Speech Synthesizers have that same Voice?

41 votes
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How did Apple fail to tap the business and scientific markets?

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How did people program for Consoles with multiple CPUs?

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Why does the Z80 include the RLD and RRD instructions?

39 votes
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Why do 3D models on the PlayStation 1 “wobble” so much?

39 votes

Why were early 3D games so full of muted colours?

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Was the first ARM "processor" a BBC BASIC program?

37 votes
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What's with the Atari 2600 colors on SECAM?

36 votes
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How do old computer emulators work?

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Why didn't SNES Doom use mode 7?

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Where can I find the code of the ancestors of the WebKit family of web browsers?

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What were wait-states, and why was it only an issue for PCs?

31 votes
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What LISP compilers and interpreters were available for 8-bit machines?

29 votes
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Amiga 500 OCS/ECS vs Mega Drive VDP

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What operations could early PC 3D accelerators perform?

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How fast is memcpy on the Z80?

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Who were the first engineers to "clean-room" the IBM PC BIOS?

28 votes

Do instruction exercisers exist for 8086 and 68K (and other) CPUs?

28 votes

Are pixels on the Commodore 64 square?

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What was novel about the Atari ST? Did it introduce any innovations?

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