BACKGROUND: Many personal computers that are not Y2K compliant can be fixed by installing a new Basic Input Output System – aka BIOS – chip. Companies also are coming out with CD-ROM disks that are ...

In the world of computers and electronics, there are a lot of terms that can be perplexing. One such term that often crops up is "ROM." But what is ROM, and how does it function within the framework ...

Retrocomputers need ROMs, but they’re just so read only. Enter the latest incarnation of [Piers]’s One ROM to rule them all, now built with a RP2350, because the newest version is 5V capable. This can ...

A BASIC interpreter stored in a read only memory chip that is available to the user at all times. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

The community behind the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) has gone to great lengths to preserve thousands of arcade games run on hundreds of different chipsets through emulation over the years.

In the early days of computing, the difference between RAM and ROM was very clear. Random access memory (RAM) was designed to hold data while the computer was turned on and to lose it when the power ...

Here’s the guts from [Dext0rb’s] Super Nintendo cartridge. It’s easy to pick out the dark-colored board which lets him reflash SNES ROMs via USB. We’ve seen this done a number of times, but this is a ...