| | Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard 5 days ago | past | discuss |
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| | Storing configuration directly in executable, with no external config (2023) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by gnyeki 16 days ago | past |
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| | What made the Amiga "Genlock-able"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by doener 60 days ago | past |
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| | How did 8088/86 PCs implement flood-fill before SSE and GPUs? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by azeemba 85 days ago | past |
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| | Why do we use \C to end the output of the shell echo command? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by susam 3 months ago | past |
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| | How did the C64 lockup bug and its workarounds work? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 5 points by gnoll_of_gozag 4 months ago | past |
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| | What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 72 points by azeemba 4 months ago | past | 56 comments |
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| | What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard 4 months ago | past |
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| | Assembly – Space Invaders ships remaining not initialized (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by rrauenza 4 months ago | past |
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| | The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 35 points by SeenNotHeard 4 months ago | past | 15 comments |
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| | Are there any MP/M multiplayer games? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | past | 2 comments |
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| | Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 277 points by SeenNotHeard 8 months ago | past | 499 comments |
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| | Why was hardware diversification an asset for the IBM PC ecosystem? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by rwallace 10 months ago | past |
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| | Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard 10 months ago | past |
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| | Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past |
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| | When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 158 points by Boogie_Man 11 months ago | past | 176 comments |
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| | Where does this esoteric Pascal operator come from? (2017) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by peter_d_sherman on Oct 17, 2024 | past | 1 comment |
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| | Are retrocomputers best left on or off? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 66 points by azeemba on Oct 12, 2024 | past | 76 comments |
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| | How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 240 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 4, 2024 | past | 122 comments |
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| | How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 10 points by SeenNotHeard on Sept 27, 2024 | past | 2 comments |
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| | Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by SeenNotHeard on Sept 24, 2024 | past | 2 comments |
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| | What was the intention with the Commodore 128? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 6 points by amichail on Sept 18, 2024 | past |
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| | Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running CP/M? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 4 points by amichail on Sept 18, 2024 | past |
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| | Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard on Sept 11, 2024 | past | 1 comment |
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| | Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 135 points by SeenNotHeard on Aug 13, 2024 | past | 164 comments |
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| | What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 69 points by SeenNotHeard on Aug 6, 2024 | past | 60 comments |
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| | Why were early (personal) computer connectors so bulky? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 6 points by azeemba on July 13, 2024 | past |
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| | Why didn't C++ specify filename extensions? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by susam on July 13, 2024 | past |
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| | What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 49 points by azeemba on June 28, 2024 | past | 75 comments |
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| | Why are the Intel 8080's rotate instructions opposite to intuition? (2021) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by userbinator on May 18, 2024 | past |
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