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Q: Problem with hackrom on real GBA cartridge

Cristóbal ToledoThis is a problem that has brought me headaches, so I will try to explain as best as possible. I have flashed with a Gbxcart several GBA ROMs in real cartridges (repro), working without any problem, but there is a special cartridge with which I have not had much luck, which is this one: In this ...

 
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Q: Award BIOS error code meaning

Tamás PolgárI have a faulty Asus SP-97V Pentium motherboard. It doesn't boot, but it definitely takes power and does something. I plugged a PCI diagnostics card into it, and it shows error codes C0 or C1. It seems to be random. Finding the meaning of Award POST codes isn't the easiest. Apparently the only th...

 
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Q: DOSBox problem reading floppy boot sector using INT 0x13

RoopsI'm writing 16-bit boot sector code. It reads "sector 0" under VMware with all the fields, including the 0xaa55 sig, as expected but the same code copied to DOSBox under Win 8.1 (x64) reads nothing. This makes testing a bit tedious. Is anyone aware of a work-around, please? Here is example code t...

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

uhohI 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...

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I just realized that the Voyagers can be considered retrocomputers :-)

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