They “found a surprise waiting for them on level 256,” writes Jamey Pittman at the Pac-Man Dossier. “It was a surprise no one knew about—not even the developers at Namco.” The 256th level is a ...

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...

Fantastic technological leaps forward may be possible, but they leave behind a frustrated base of users invested in abandoned tech. One such example in the 1970s was the rise of 32-bit memory ...