Apr 19, 2016
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Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”?
Because that's when you know.
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Apr 18, 2016
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Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Too much memory!
Another case of intentionally under-reporting memory.
Apr 11, 2016
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Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: The interrupt flag
Incomplete virtualization strikes again.
Apr 4, 2016
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Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Working around the iretd problem
Speed Racer in the Challenge of Racer X, please make it stop.
Apr 1, 2016
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Is it really a prank if the victim doesn’t realize there’s a prank going on?
Oblivious.
Mar 30, 2016
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The numerology of the build, redux
But why 16?
Mar 28, 2016
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Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Virtual memory
Memory access is uniform and free, right?
Mar 21, 2016
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Were there specific criteria for making a game work at all costs vs. leaving it be if it had problems too weird to debug?
It was basically up to me.
Mar 1, 2016
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You kids are so cute, thinking you invented email
It predated the Internet, you know.
Feb 2, 2016
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What happened to the ability to use … (three dots) to refer to the grandparent directory?
An old NetWare compatibility hack.