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What types of constants are accepted as vector sizes in the B language?
Awarded May 3 at 13:19
Maximum number of sprites per scan-line on Ghosts'n Goblins Arcade Hardware?
Awarded May 2 at 11:16
(In)significance of spaces in parsing Fortran IV
Awarded Apr 26 at 16:42
What is the line separator (end of line) character of textfiles of the VMS operating system?
Awarded Apr 19 at 11:07
How does PCIe know which card to use for legacy ISA I/O ports?
Awarded Apr 5 at 14:37
How plausible is this anecdote about "toggling in" an operating system?
Awarded Apr 4 at 18:19
Was there ever any real-world usage of the Intel iAPX 432?
Awarded Apr 1 at 22:13
to find out a driver and identify model of the old printer
Awarded Mar 27 at 11:50
What is the purpose of DPMI interrupt 31h function 300h?
Awarded Mar 18 at 15:05
Building an 8080 based computer
Awarded Mar 13 at 6:25
Why did ancient Unix perform BSS segment initialization?
Awarded Mar 12 at 10:22
In The Fractalist, how did high school students connect to IBM computers?
Awarded Mar 9 at 20:19
Origin of "foo", "bar", and "baz"
Awarded Mar 1 at 21:49
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
Awarded Feb 15 at 21:06
Which 8086 or 8088-based computer, probably made by Zenith, offered EMS support on the motherboard?
Awarded Feb 15 at 1:50
Isometric game for the ZX Spectrum, featuring a protagonist with magical powers and a decaying body, held in a castle
Awarded Feb 14 at 12:37
Why did programmers keep using EMS when XMS became commonly available?
Awarded Feb 12 at 2:52
How did OCR work in the 60s?
Awarded Feb 6 at 14:42
VIC-II Border Flip Flop Comparison Values
Awarded Feb 6 at 9:07
What is the function of Vintage Apple Audio cable 590-0618-A
Awarded Jan 29 at 22:20
Did CRT TVs adjust raster height in response to the non-standard signal?
Awarded Jan 27 at 13:21
IBM Model M2 stuck on Scroll and Caps Lock, no keys reacting
Awarded Jan 17 at 17:26
Reduced Circuit C64 Clock Generator newer motherboard Y1 frequency question
Awarded Jan 16 at 20:49
KOH - Early Full Disk Encryption
Awarded Jan 10 at 21:42
How to build the game Raptor v1.2 from the original source code release?
Awarded Jan 1 at 23:39
Triple-booting Windows NT 4.x/5.x, Windows 9x, and MS-DOS using NTLDR
Awarded Dec 24, 2024 at 8:29
Identifying IBM PC SIMM RAM size
Awarded Dec 17, 2024 at 18:45
How does the early first version of M68K emulator work?
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 5:13
How to set/force EXE stack size with 1988 Turbo C 2.0 for a reverse engineering project
Awarded Dec 8, 2024 at 15:42
Why does the ZX Spectrum ROM set I register, then wait 24 T-states?
Awarded Nov 26, 2024 at 12:15
Was it really possible to damage my VGA card by programming it in assembly through its latches registers?
Awarded Nov 25, 2024 at 3:39
Identifying and finding a charger and disk for the Acer Anyware K386s?
Awarded Nov 18, 2024 at 19:34
How to insert custom code into Super Mario Bros. NES file
Awarded Nov 18, 2024 at 8:05
Do I need an extra driver to use PS/2 port computer mouse? [closed]
Awarded Nov 16, 2024 at 13:07
Is there a mistake in the code sample in “Programming the Z80” performing 16-bit by 8-bit division?
Awarded Nov 15, 2024 at 23:08
Default Mac OS 8 default desktop color
Awarded Nov 10, 2024 at 22:27
Example Windows 3.11 286 protected mode program - how long did Win 3.1 286 protected mode last?
Awarded Nov 7, 2024 at 23:11
ARMv4: Does reading PC with a "shift by register" operand really offset it by an additional 4 bytes?
Awarded Nov 7, 2024 at 22:37
Troubleshooting ST-238R and WD1002A controller card
Awarded Nov 7, 2024 at 20:30
What did the 32K RAM Memory Expansion Cartridge do for V-Tech PreComputers?
Awarded Nov 7, 2024 at 16:06
What does the 7 segment number mean on my CRT monitor?
Awarded Nov 3, 2024 at 12:51
How to remove the DUAL BIOS logo from the GA-G31M-ES2L boot screen?
Awarded Oct 27, 2024 at 10:27
Did the ENIAC have any programming language?
Awarded Oct 24, 2024 at 18:11
Space Game from early 1980s with landing on planets, refueling, and aliens
Awarded Oct 24, 2024 at 16:35
Need help restoring the OS of an "AST Premium Exec 386SX/20" laptop
Awarded Oct 21, 2024 at 12:35
Universal footprint for 16 bit ISA slot
Awarded Oct 16, 2024 at 8:00
What is the advantage of 1's complement over 2's complement? [duplicate]
Awarded Oct 9, 2024 at 20:30
How does Master System backwards compatibility work on the Megadrive?
Awarded Oct 1, 2024 at 1:55
What happens when I declare multiple register variables in C on older compilers?
Awarded Sep 19, 2024 at 15:26
List of Intel 8086-compatible CPUs? [closed]
Awarded Sep 14, 2024 at 15:56
Why is one of the Intel 8042 keyboard controller outputs inverted?
Awarded Aug 30, 2024 at 23:31
about flag changes in 16-bit calculations on the MC6800
Awarded Aug 30, 2024 at 3:18
Commodore 64 game top down tank on alien moon. Radioactive craters and repair stations for damage
Awarded Aug 23, 2024 at 4:16
Which BASIC dialect first featured a single-character comment introducer?
Awarded Aug 22, 2024 at 8:35
Why do variable names in BASIC need type suffixes?
Awarded Aug 17, 2024 at 15:10
How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?
Awarded Aug 17, 2024 at 9:06
Commodore 128 bottom row of keys work with different shift keys
Awarded Aug 11, 2024 at 13:40
Has anyone run the Dhrystone MIPS 2.1 benchmark on a stock, 2.8MHz, Apple IIgs?
Awarded Aug 8, 2024 at 16:30
Did any Famicom game use microphone for random seed?
Awarded Jul 31, 2024 at 1:31
How did the NES's RP2A03 noise generator produce 32k bit long sequences despite only being 15 bits wide?
Awarded Jul 23, 2024 at 19:50
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