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wizzwizz4

Dec 16, 2021 22:17

So, we graduated. A proper public non-beta site now.

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forest

Sep 11, 2022 22:56

gbatemp.net/threads/video-codec-for-gba.354591

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Retrocamping Meta

Nov 15, 2021 21:07

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Q: We're graduating!

Retrocomputing Stack Exchange is leaving beta in mid-December. What is beta? As the (somewhat out of date) Help Center article says: “Beta” means that the site is still being defined and constructed We've done pretty well at this, I think. We've got a good understanding of what's on-topic and...

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Joel Reyes Noche

Dec 31, 2021 14:10

Happy new year!

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Raffzahn

Jan 15, 2023 02:03

Maybe old when seen from a consumerist view (although the one I use may be evven older). Still, as mentioned, Old is not Retro. Retro is when Technology gets resurrected way after it was useful. like a C64, An Apple IIgs, a PC AT or at most an early Pentium.

JRN

Jan 10, 2023 02:28

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A: Are the computers in Severance real?

They're props, but the design is based on a real terminal screen/keyboard from the 70's The entire design premise of the show is based on an uncertainty of where we are in time. "We wanted to confuse the viewer about whether this is a period piece, contemporary, or the future." The "Lumon Indu...

Joel Reyes Noche

Sep 18, 2021 04:30

Sir Clive Sinclair recently passed away.

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uhoh

Jul 9, 2021 12:37

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Q: How is stacking oranges in 24 dimensions related to receiving and decoding signals from the Voyagers?

I was listening to Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions; A Ukrainian mathematician has solved the centuries-old sphere-packing problem in dimensions eight and 24. and reading the transcript there. Mathematicians have been studying sphere packings since at least 1611, when Johannes Kepler c...

communication voyager data-transmission noise algorithms

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Chenmunka

Jan 15, 2019 11:19

We are 1000 days old today. Another milestone achieved.

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wizzwizz4

Feb 8, 2021 09:07

@RetrocampingMeta This one's interesting. I eagerly await a flame war. (Sadly, the people here seem to be too well-behaved… ☹)

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wizzwizz4

Jan 5, 2021 16:45

I'm impressed that Codidact is getting threaded comments; that's a feature I've wanted for a long time.

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Raffzahn

Dec 22, 2020 20:38

Serious. I see RC.SE as serving two masters - direct answer to a question asked to help the OP, but as well creating lasting knowledge. And there need to be housekeeping done to keep noise down.

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Nike Dattani

Jul 17, 2020 04:12

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Q: Supercomputers around the world!

For a matter modelling person, the most valuable resource is computing power. For many of us, computing power at hand limits the scale of problems we can solve. There are many national supercomputing facilities for academics. What are the resources available in each country?

high-performance-computing one-topic-per-answer

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Gallifreyan

Mar 28, 2022 23:04

The physical collection and the museum behind it8bit.club, which used to house "over 500 IT-related exhibits dating from the 1950s to 2000s" has been destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine.

Gilles

Apr 19, 2016 20:17

Read this: The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta

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Maarten Bodewes

Dec 23, 2021 21:41

@wizzwizz4 Are you guys interested in this question about AES in 1900? Or is that too speculative for you?

uhoh

Dec 1, 2021 22:03

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Q: How were registers in the Apollo Guidance Computer implemented?

I'm having a hard time finding information on the composition of the AGC's registers. Were they also Magnetic Core Memory or something else?

apollo-program flight-computer

user3840170

Aug 21, 2021 19:36

We know there are flash-to-IDE adapters, but has anyone ever made ‘flashcarts’ for PC compatibles? Something that connects to the ISA or PCI bus and presents flash storage not as an IDE drive, but mapped into the address space, like for example an expansion ROM.

wizzwizz4

Jul 15, 2021 15:24

Compiling Defender (1981).

user3840170

Jul 13, 2021 12:39

@AnnoyingRobot More fridge logic: discoursedrome.tumblr.com/post/656546630186713088

wizzwizz4

Jul 8, 2021 14:48

@Adám Nah, I'm just in it for the referral badge. :-p

wizzwizz4

Jun 27, 2021 18:16

Near is dead. ☹

LаngLаngС

Feb 5, 2021 14:29

It's alas too bad to migrate, from unreg'd user and suboptimally phrased. But the WP pagehas just one&half sentence covering the DATAR aspects of all this. (With most links readily available already rotten away into archive.org))

ilkkachu

Feb 2, 2021 17:11

Also, I'm sorry to be a bother, it's not your fault that the system sucks. I just find it seriously wrong that volatile comments that can be deleted at any time turn into pretty much permanent chat messages... I should see if I can find the time and energy to rant about it on main meta, not that I expect more than an epsilon's chance of getting a change.

Stephen Kitt

Jan 13, 2021 13:50

But I didn’t flag to indicate a technical inaccuracy, or an altogether wrong answer. I flagged because the answer doesn’t attempt to answer the question; it’s a comment...

FUZxxl

Apr 19, 2016 20:46

YOu know your site is broken when the users have to apply custom CSS to fix it.

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uhoh

Sep 28, 2020 01:35

hippietrail

May 28, 2020 06:35

if anyone is interested i've got a first alpha version of my Spectrum & Amstrad module for the Ghidra decompiler

Chenmunka

Feb 6, 2017 19:48

It would "Go for" the files you wanted

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Chenmunka

Dec 31, 2016 12:10

Happy New Year everyone. Our site is off to a great start, onward and upward!

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wizzwizz4

Aug 10, 2016 13:59

We have got a blog! Check it out, and maybe even write a blog post or two.

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Bálint

Jun 2, 2016 09:51

Isn't active enough? You can't find unanswered questions

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Retrocomputing Meta

May 17, 2016 16:13

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Q: Accepting Nominations — Who should moderate this site?

Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles. We need your help. Please nominate folks you would like to see become provisional moderators for this site. ...

discussion featured moderation

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Igor Skochinsky

Aug 7, 2019 19:27

amazing asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907280007.html

Igor Skochinsky

Aug 3, 2019 15:29

oops my clipboard is stuck

ArtOfCode

Apr 19, 2016 21:11

You shouldn't drink the Internet while arguing on the Apfelwein?

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Annoying Robot

Dec 25, 2018 15:00

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Q: How many OS/2 viruses were there?

When I was in college, I remember IBM representatives trying to sell OS/2 Warp to students and teachers by saying that there were no (known) viruses for OS/2. (Of course, that didn't stop the makers of IBM AntiVirus for OS/2 and Norton AntiVirus for OS/2.) The paper "The effect of computer viru...

ibm operating-system

Joe

Nov 15, 2018 01:05

@wizzwizz4 I think it doesn't meet the bar of retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic - it's basically asking for download resources for a random library and leads to link-only answers. I realize retro is different than many of the sites in that that regard but the tour states this site is for "working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about retrocomputing." and I'm not sure this applies to this question.

Raffzahn

Apr 21, 2018 21:04

@wizzwizz4 The 48 pixel trick for example uses the two players (8 bit each) to be displayed 3 times per line (hardware) but reloads them between displays, so effectivly providing 48 bits of screen data. which again can be overlayed with the playfield of 20 bits, displayed double and reloaded on the fly, giving anoter 40 bits of screen data per line. Together with missiles and ball this means 71 bits of variable data within the 160 pixel positions - plus background for the unmodified.

Dan Neely

Jan 5, 2018 19:23

@nepho a 250k line C program and 1m lines of ASM are a lot closer in terms of what's in them than the 4x line size would imply. Assuming the ASM was well commented and used meaningful labels I don't see one feet as being significantly harder than the other

Will Hartung

Jan 5, 2018 17:44

@Nepho the premise of "handwriting" is simply that when people create content, they leave tell tales that are unique to them. Whether it's a story or code, different authors write different ways. While with simple code there is less room for a personal fingerprint, you can certainly catch that in comments.

Chenmunka

Nov 15, 2017 08:47

1000 open questions reached. Something of a milestone!

wizzwizz4

Apr 13, 2017 08:41

I made a new blog post.

wizzwizz4

Feb 1, 2017 19:34

Then I think: who cares; I could win a thing!

wizzwizz4

Feb 1, 2017 19:08

So long as you wrote "good code" that is. If you did a Ms. Pacman, all bets are off.

wizzwizz4

Jan 17, 2017 08:09

@JAL I usually stop by to see whether you've stopped by to ping mods.

Gorchestopher H

Jan 3, 2017 13:51

I've posted my question, we'll see how poorly it gets received...

JAL

Dec 6, 2016 04:00

@mods: anyone think the comments on the top answer to the NOP question are getting out of hand? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/1843/621 I might flag to migrate to chat

JAL

Dec 5, 2016 14:35

Mods and other power users: lots of traffic coming to my NES NOP question due to reddit: reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5gjons/…

Stephen Kitt

Nov 2, 2016 19:29

Actually Annoying Robots links questions in the chat, we can use the chat to search for deleted questions

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