In looking at the stats for this site on Area51, it looks like we have a lot of areas classified as "Needs Work." I think this site fills a gap in the Stack Exchange offering, and I do hope it continues beyond beta. We are closing in on 200 questions, so we are definitely seeing activity. Wh...

My ZX Spectrum 48k seems very resistant to working with audio input. I no longer have any cassette players, so am relying on audio files from digital players. I have been able to save and verify a tiny BASIC program to a digital recorder, but getting the right volume to save files from playtzx or...

I was installing the OEM version of Windows 95 on VirtualBox the other day for reminiscence sake, and for some reason I had two different product keys. I tested both of them to see which one mapped to the CD, and to my surprise both product keys work with the installation. I always thought the pr...

Is it legal to download older ROM images of software and games for non-commercial use in a retro computing system (emulated or otherwise)?

I have played around with the QEMU emulator, as it can emulate OS's that VirtualBox cannot. With QEMU being quite slow because it has to translate to different CPU architectures, is it ever used commercially or in business applications?