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I was interested in a recent interview of Masayuki Uemura, one of the engineers who designed the Nintendo Famicom in the early 80s. During initial design phase...
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8 answerEven the Intel 4004, which had a 4-bit word size, had a 12-bit address space. I'm wondering if any commercial CPUs had an 8-bit or similar address-space for programs, data,...
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8 answerI have many 1.44MB floppies 20 years old or older. My FDD, which I just bought online and received recently, cannot read them. The FDD can often display the contents...
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4 answerI've recently looked into the Sinclair QL schematics and found that it actually has two 8bit ROMs, 16 4164 DRAM chips and yet it is purely 8bit machine, even the...
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4 answerThe PS/2 keyboard protocol allows the keyboard to generate a clock rate between 10 kHz and 16.7 kHz. At 11 bits per scancode, 10 kHz is a massive 909 scancodes...
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5 answerSome small utilities, tools etc for Atari were distributed as BASIC programs that would consist of just one line, that looked something like this:10 A=USR(ADR("p$PHHLéúÿÿÇEéúÿÿ@éüÿÿ2A$éòùÿÿE°U´è§øÿÿøÿÆûÿÿé`"))Sometimes they would be split...
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1 answerI recently picked up a pair of Atari 2600 paddle controllers for use with my Atari Flashback 6. The Amazon store said in the product description that they had...
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2 answerShowing my ignorance about hardware here - I noticed there is still a community developing Amiga accelerators cards.Giving substantial boost from the original memory for example. However the processor...
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11 answerI've got a sweet joystick that uses gameport, and I'd like to use it in my Kerbal Space Program. My modern PC lacks any ISA or PCI slots, so I...
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2 answerThe game Creatures 2 on the Commodore 64 had an unusual cheat to get infinite lives which unlike most things on the Internet that are said to "really work" really...
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