Skip to main content
Retrocomputing

Necromancer

 Necromancer
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
Awarded 719 times.
Why isn't the WDC 65816 available in "externally" 16-bit versions?
Awarded Nov 13 at 15:07
Spider and snake in a square
Awarded Nov 10 at 17:45
Old pc car game, mission select inside old camper
Awarded Nov 7 at 17:10
The MAC-360 programming language developed in the mid 1960s
Awarded Oct 5 at 10:22
Why does the 6502 read from the stack before writing it?
Awarded Oct 2 at 10:12
When did the transition from static to dynamic shared libraries happen?
Awarded Sep 24 at 16:12
What was the point of Apple Pascal having its own file system?
Awarded Sep 21 at 13:56
How did the BBC Micro stay cool?
Awarded Sep 13 at 11:34
Behavior of DECDHL on single lines
Awarded Sep 12 at 7:48
Compression techniques used in old ZX Spectrum tapes
Awarded Sep 11 at 3:20
Has any copy of 386/ix survived from before 1988?
Awarded Sep 10 at 19:06
Linker running on DOS 8086 to create Win32 PE .exe programs
Awarded Sep 9 at 9:43
Why does the FRE() function in CBM BASIC v2 return negative values?
Awarded Sep 5 at 11:32
Most modern C compilers targeting DOS 8086, running on DOS 8086 (16-bit)
Awarded Sep 4 at 10:30
Which computers used the Intel 82786 graphics chips, and what sort of commercial success did that chip attain?
Awarded Aug 31 at 8:37
Which computers used the Intel 82786 graphics chips, and what sort of commercial success did that chip attain?
Awarded Aug 31 at 8:37
When was an image of an apple first used to promote the APL language
Awarded Aug 29 at 18:07
Does anyone have any information on GUTS (Gothenburg University Timesharing System)?
Awarded Aug 27 at 21:22
Did the Soviets need industrial espionage to get IBM software pre-1970?
Awarded Aug 19 at 9:00
What is a more featureful and/or better coded 6800 disassembler for modern machines than f9dasm?
Awarded Aug 12 at 2:11
Is the Source Code from "Professional Symbian Programming" by Martin Tasker available?
Awarded Aug 8 at 12:56
Did the Motorola 88000 have 'fatal flaws'?
Awarded Aug 7 at 6:23
Was the ZX Spectrum used for serious number crunching?
Awarded Jul 22 at 14:07
Over its lifetime, how many Apple II computers were sold?
Awarded Jul 22 at 6:47
Was the ZX Spectrum used for serious number crunching?
Awarded Jul 21 at 15:39
Why were 3D games on the Amiga not faster than on similar 16 bit systems like the Atari ST
Awarded Jul 18 at 17:12
Why is the original Altair BASIC (for the 8080 CPU) source code not available on-line?
Awarded Jul 14 at 8:41
Identify a 80s spy themed arcade game
Awarded Jun 25 at 12:32
Are there any modern compilers that can generate Amiga/m68k executables?
Awarded Jun 19 at 0:24
HP presage of the PDA revolution
Awarded Jun 16 at 18:36
Why did CP/M and MS-DOS use the BIOS instead of their own drivers to access hardware?
Awarded Jun 11 at 11:53
Atari ST DRAM timing puzzle
Awarded Jun 10 at 13:33
NES cartridge ROM emulation with Arduino or Pi?
Awarded Jun 10 at 7:41
What was the first operating system called DOS?
Awarded Jun 9 at 10:37
How do I get Windows 3.1 to run on modern PCs (> 512 MB of memory)?
Awarded May 24 at 15:56
What can be done with a USR file on the Commodore 1541 disk drive?
Awarded May 24 at 14:27
How can I prevent unwanted key repeat when using PS/2 keyboard with USB adapter?
Awarded May 23 at 15:51
What are the safest temporary zero-page locations across all Commodore (CBM) machines?
Awarded May 19 at 10:35
Why did "protected-mode MS-DOS" never happen?
Awarded May 14 at 19:34
Why must the Amiga 1020 disk drive be powered-on before and powered-off after the Amiga computer?
Awarded May 14 at 14:21
How did the Sun-1 handle page faults despite having the original 68000 processor?
Awarded May 14 at 1:48
Which Linux or BSD distributions do still support i386, i486 or i586 CPUs?
Awarded May 9 at 18:16
How does the floating point conversion in Zuse's machines work?
Awarded May 6 at 16:07
Can I trigger the Amiga ROM debugger from the boot prompt?
Awarded Apr 25 at 17:06
How was EDSAC program code represented on uniselectors?
Awarded Apr 23 at 16:30
Role of the Z80 co-processor in GBA games
Awarded Apr 22 at 14:18
What was IBM VS/PC?
Awarded Apr 11 at 17:53
Why do I get an error named "CDROM not High Sierra or ISO-9660 format" when burning a Windows 95 system CD?
Awarded Apr 10 at 1:25
Who designed the ALi M1386SX core?
Awarded Apr 9 at 19:40
How did the 6809 achieve source-code compatibility with the 6800?
Awarded Mar 28 at 14:35
Why did the 8080's PUSH PSW write one reserved bit as 1 and the other two as 0?
Awarded Mar 24 at 0:53
What's the terminal/home computer used as a prop in the computer school in Superman 3?
Awarded Mar 13 at 10:37
Where is Bill Currie's fork of DJASM available?
Awarded Mar 9 at 16:43
How was the C language ported to architectures with non-power-of-2 word sizes?
Awarded Mar 9 at 14:32
Can you use 3.5″ high-density floppy disks in a double-density drive?
Awarded Mar 7 at 5:51
Timing interrupts on MS-DOS
Awarded Mar 1 at 21:12
Why did base64 win against uuencode?
Awarded Feb 18 at 21:56
Why did "protected-mode MS-DOS" never happen?
Awarded Feb 18 at 13:05
What was the earliest use of |> pipe in programming?
Awarded Feb 17 at 13:22
What was this music program I played with around the late 90s?
Awarded Feb 13 at 18:25
1
2 3 4 5
…
12