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What's up with the emulation questions lately?

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Are legacy OS's on modern systems on-topic?

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Should “Which original retrocomputer OS's are still maintained and updated today, for original hardware?” be a community wiki Q&A pair?

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What constitutes “retro”?

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Does Java (J2ME) emulation information belong to Retrocomputing?

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Why restrict history questions? (Or: Can we not restrict history questions?)

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answered Apr 6 at 8:59 tofro 23.4k

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Should the tags for the closely related PDPs be synonymised or something?

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Is XP considered retrocomputing yet?

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answered Mar 29 at 6:25 Incnis Mrsi 217

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Why do my Not An Answer flags keep getting declined or disputed?

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Are questions about Windows 2000 on-topic for this site?

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answered Mar 21 at 9:08 Rohan 376

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“Delete” versus “vote to delete”?

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Should [glitches] exist? There's 8 questions right now, but more would fit

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The “cleanup” badge seems to be awarded for bad behaviour

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Restoration and maintenance?

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Venting about an opinion-based question

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Don't answer a question you want to close

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A number of seemingly duplicate tags

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Are questions about legacy telephony (POTS/PSTN/ISDN) considered on topic?

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modified Mar 2 at 6:15 DrSheldon 10.6k

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How can the VHS steganography question be made on-topic?

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answered Feb 28 at 22:27 pipe 1,408

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User references broken?

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Would a “disk operating systems” tag be beneficial?

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Are the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP systems finally considered retro?

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answered Feb 19 at 22:00 Mark Williams 2,222

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The mention of batch languages in the [ms-dos] tag wiki

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Does Retrocomputing want to be featured as a place to go for identifying retro games on Arqade?

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Are pinball machines and coin-boxes on topic?

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DIY retrocomputing

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answered Jan 29 at 2:30 manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact 7,224

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Please delete 17394

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2020: a year in moderation

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What is the etiquette around wiki answers?

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answered Jan 9 at 17:59 Chenmunka♦ 7,244

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Is it time to update the rules for questions about game consoles?

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answered Jan 5 at 15:09 Michael Shopsin 2,032

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Unifying tag spellings

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modified Dec 27 '20 at 13:56 wizzwizz4♦ 16.2k

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Is emulation on topic?

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Answerer reverting good-faith edits

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Unusable ti-99 tag

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Never a user suspended. What can we learn from you?

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Did I do something wrong?

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Is this site heading in the right direction?

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Are questions about upgrading/repairing/extending retro computers with contemporary technologies on topic?

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Slippery Slope in Action

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Markup for Overbars

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Are Reddit links inappropriate?

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Where to ask question about setting up modems for BBS access

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Moderator Bans Using “Father”

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Retrocomputing golf

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Are questions about very early computing devices on topic?

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Retrocomputing – will the site survive?

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This error is a teapot?

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