8-bit CPUs are generally larger than 8-bit, usually 16-bit. 8-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 8-bit microprocessors. The term '8-bit'...
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David Murray (born 1975), commonly known as The 8-Bit Guy, is an American retrocomputing enthusiast and video game developer who runs a YouTube channel...
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8-Bit Theater is a sprite comic, meaning the art is mainly taken from pre-existing video game assets, created by Brian Clevinger that ran from 2001 to...
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8-bit color graphics are a method of storing image information in a computer's memory or in an image file, so that each pixel is represented by 8 bits...
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8-Bit Christmas is a 2021 American Christmas comedy film directed by Michael Dowse, from a screenplay by Kevin Jakubowski based upon his novel of the...
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Look up 8-bit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 8-bit computing is computing with 8-bit addresses or units of data. 8-bit may also refer to: Octet (computing)...
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The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical...
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8-bit clean is an attribute of computer systems, communication channels, and other devices and software, that process 8-bit character encodings without...
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1991 platform game. It is a companion to the 16-bit Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog for the 8-bit Sega Master System and Game Gear consoles. Ancient—a...
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The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from 8-bit FAT)
designed as an 8-bit file system, the maximum number of clusters must increase as disk drive capacity increases, and so the number of bits used to identify...
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8-Bit Rebellion! is a massively multiplayer online, and single player, video game released and based on the American rock band, Linkin Park for iOS. The...
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IT 8-bit was a computer museum in Mariupol, Ukraine. It was founded by Dmitry Cherepanov. Before its destruction it used to be one of the largest privately...
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8-Bit Rebellion! is the soundtrack album for the online video game of the same name, consisting of songs recorded by American rock band Linkin Park. It...
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(PCM), bit depth is the number of bits of information in each sample, and it directly corresponds to the resolution of each sample. Examples of bit depth...
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is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. Almost every webpage is stored in UTF-8. UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid Unicode...
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Byte (redirect from 8-bit byte)
the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as the Internet Protocol (RFC 791) refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet...
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published by Sega for the Master System and Game Gear. It is the sequel to the 8-bit Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and follows Sonic as he attempts to get the Chaos...
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Color depth (redirect from 32-bit color)
differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component...
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Chiptune (redirect from 8-bit (music))
Chiptune, also called 8-bit music, is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage...
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in September 2008 by former Satelight members. On June 8, 2020, it was announced that Eight Bit had entered a partnership with Bandai Namco to create multiple...
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engine as its predecessor 8-Bit Armies, but is now based in a fantasy themed scenario. 8-Bit Hordes is the sequel to the game 8-Bit Armies. It uses the same...
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Extended ASCII (redirect from 8-bit ASCII)
Hewlett-Packard started to add European characters to their extended 7-bit / 8-bit ASCII character set HP Roman Extension around 1978/1979 for use with...
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Third generation of video game consoles (redirect from 8-bit era)
the third generation of video game consoles, commonly referred to as the 8-bit era, began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese release of two systems: Nintendo's...
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List of Intel processors (section The 8-bit processors)
Performance 8-bit Microcontroller 8744 – High Performance 8-bit Microcontroller 8051 – 8-bit Control-Oriented Microcontroller 8052 – 8-bit Control-Oriented...
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A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to a string of binary code. Parity bits are a simple form of error detecting code. Parity bits are generally...
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around 1998. Its instruments consists primarily of old 8-bit and 16-bit computers (with 8-bit audio output) such as the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore...
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Data structure alignment (redirect from 8 bit alignment)
on a 32-bit machine, a data structure containing a 16-bit value followed by a 32-bit value could have 16 bits of padding between the 16-bit value and...
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Character (computing) (redirect from 8-bit character)
number of contiguous bits. While a character is most commonly assumed to refer to 8 bits (one byte) today, other options like the 6-bit character code were...
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8-Bit Armies is a real-time strategy video game developed by Petroglyph Games, which was released on April 22, 2016 for Microsoft Windows and for Xbox...
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