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Playing with Alley Cat, a classic MS-DOS game, from your web browser

March 1, 2019June 17, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment alleycat, pcjs, pcx86

Last week I explored gabonator’s Visual C++ and Javascript port of Alley Cat, one of my favourite DOS games. The project, despite being apparently

Vintage Computing Web Development Windows Tips

Exploring PCx86, an IBM PC emulator written in JavaScript

February 6, 2019June 16, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment pcjs, pcx86

I came across PCjs, a JavaScript-based emulator that supports many different vintage computer architectures and spent last week setting up my first web-based PC

Vintage Computing Windows Tips

8086 Tiny Plus, a lightweight PC XT emulator with CGA/MCGA graphics

January 15, 2019June 16, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment 8086tiny, dosbox, msdos, picoxt

DosBox has always been my favorite emulator choice to experiment with vintage PC software, but I still love the idea

.NET Framework Database Software Development

Making good sense of the 1TB Yahoo Geocities data archive

November 11, 2018June 15, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment geocities, linq, sql, torrent

I got to know Yahoo Geocities in 2001 during a crash course on basic HTML and web design. Looking back,

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Reducing comment spam on WordPress sites by editing wp-comments-post.php

October 23, 2018June 10, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment WordPress

Despite implementing various measures such as removing the link field from WordPress comment form as well as adding Google reCAPTCHA, thousands

Vintage Computing Windows Tips

Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4

September 28, 2018June 11, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment deskmate, dosbox, tandy

My first computer was a Tandy 1000 RSX. It has a 25MHz 80386SX processor, 4MB of RAM and 100MB hard disk

Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips

Using NFS to transfer files between Windows and MS-DOS 6.22

August 21, 2018June 10, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment ms dos, nfs, unix

Although I successfully configured Microsoft Network Client 3.0 to access my shared folder on my Windows 7 machine, the setup eats up almost 100K of

Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips

Experimenting with DOSBox SVN-Daum, a custom DOSBox build by ykhwong

July 9, 2018June 11, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment dosbox, SVN-Daum, ykhwong

While watching a Youtube video that demonstrates how to use the Roland MT-32 MIDI synthesizer with DOSBox, I came across DOSBox

Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips

Using Microsoft Network Client 3.0 for MS-DOS with modern versions of Windows

June 8, 2018June 11, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment LAN Manager, microsoft network client, Samba

In order to facilitate transferring files from my main PC to my VirtualBox machine running MS-DOS 6.22, I installed Microsoft

.NET Framework 3CX Software Development VoIP

3CX Call Control API on 3CX Phone System version 15

May 8, 2018August 2, 2018 ToughDev 10 Comments 3cx, call control api, pjsip, voip

I revisited the 3CX Call Control API in one of my latest projects, this time on 3CX version 15.5. The last