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How about posting history questions to the proposed "History of Computers and Computing" site (area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/9912/…) and how-to questions to StackOverflow? For instance, a StackOverflow user recently got the perfect answer to a question about Turbo Pascal 3 on CP/M: stackoverflow.com/questions/2683631/… – Vebjorn Ljosa Aug 23 '10 at 15:57

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added by Gamecat, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:08

	If we will talk about the 6502, we could add as well the Atari 2600, the NES and other gaming consoles. – Petruza Mar 28 at 3:17
	And the 6510 in the C64 – JBRWilkinson Apr 12 at 6:24

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added by PaulRein, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:10

You mean the port for the joystick(s) or the cartridge slot? – JBRWilkinson Apr 12 at 6:24

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added by James Tauber Aug 23 '10 at 2:20

I assume this is for a purely software emulator? (I've added a similar question for a programmable logic emulation.) – finnw Sep 21 '11 at 20:03

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added by gordoco, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:11

Also, how to get a modern machine to create floppies from images – Gaius Feb 21 at 12:54

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added by James Tauber Aug 23 '10 at 2:11

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added by James Tauber Aug 23 '10 at 2:17

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added by Sniffer Aug 23 '10 at 21:23

Might be appropriate if it was a personal-computer game that had compatibility problems with certain kinds of hardware. But if this were just another request for an arcade or console game emulator, then I don't think it would fit here. – L2G Nov 21 '11 at 7:54

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added by HDave Jan 8 '11 at 1:22

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added by HDave, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:09

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added by HDave Jan 8 '11 at 1:24

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added by Wikis Aug 26 '10 at 11:23

Borderline question test: do you want to include emulators? Yes => on-topic; No => off-topic. – Wikis Aug 26 '10 at 11:23

I think emulators are on-topic (especially development of emulators), but I'm hoping questions will more be about internals and OSes than just how to play games – James Tauber Aug 29 '10 at 3:39

I think emulators must be on-topic, because filtering out emulator questions would be an impossible task. – finnw Sep 20 '11 at 16:59

I would say that emulators are the very reason retro computing exists. I'm pretty sure there are very few that still have their original 80's computers, mainly because some of course died and no new computers were produced, so retro computing would cease to exist as time passes if it weren't for emulators. The stated purpose of MAME is exactly that, preservation of old hardware from oblivion. – Petruza Mar 28 at 3:38

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added by HDave Jan 8 '11 at 1:25

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added by Zoot, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:13

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added by David Thornley Dec 12 '10 at 3:20

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added by PaulRein Feb 13 '11 at 7:12

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added by Jan Gray, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:13

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added by Sniffer Aug 23 '10 at 21:25

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added by HDave, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:09

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added by chuzzum Feb 13 '11 at 9:03

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added by L2G Nov 21 '11 at 7:44

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added by JustJeff, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:16

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added by JustJeff Mar 26 at 16:50

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added by Kyle Macey, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:18

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added by lu1s Apr 24 at 15:21

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added by Sniffer Aug 23 '10 at 21:27

closed as off topic by dthorpe, Cody Gray, chuzzum, Lohoris, finnw Sep 20 '11 at 12:51

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

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added by billt Sep 28 '11 at 15:09

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added by JustJeff, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:18

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added by Guy Coder Mar 27 at 20:19

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added by Justin E. Morgan May 25 '11 at 15:56

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added by finnw, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around May 8 at 19:12

Coin-operated arcade games and game consoles aren't really "personal computer hardware" (except maybe for the Intellivision?). – L2G Nov 21 '11 at 7:50

That's why I think gaming platforms (including arcades and consoles) should be included as the topic of this stack. I don't see how are they different from home computers in relation to what's discussed here. Actually the only difference is maybe that home computers had a keyboard and some sort of OS or command line or whatever, but for everything else they are exactly the same, even using the same processors and having very similar or almost identical ports of the same games. Because, let's not fool ourselves, the main interest of retro computing is games. – Petruza Mar 28 at 3:29