Author: ToughDev

Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4

June 28, 2019July 5, 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

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iOS Objective-C Software Development 

Handling NSInvalidArgumentException “Pushing the same view controller instance more than once is not supported” in an iOS application

May 5, 2019July 8, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment exception handling, java, NSInvalidArgumentException, UINavigationController

When debugging my iOS app, I discovered that the following apparently innocent code sometimes caused the app to crash due

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Android General Programming Software Development 

Simulating key presses on Android devices

April 4, 2019July 5, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment adb, bluestacks, inject_events, sendkeys

I need to develop an application that is capable of communicating with another Android application to perform a few specific

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Reverse-engineer Software Development Vintage Computing 

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

March 1, 2019July 4, 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

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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

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Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

January 15, 2019July 25, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment 8086tiny, dosbox, msdos, picoxt

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

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Linux Software Development Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

Developing vintage 68K Macintosh apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus emulator

December 23, 2018July 5, 2019 ToughDev 6 Comments codelite, retro68, ubuntu, virtualbox

In my previous post I described how Retro68 can be used to compile 68K Macintosh apps from your modern Linux

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.NET Framework Database Software Development Useful Projects 

Making good sense of the 1TB Yahoo Geocities data archive

November 11, 2018July 25, 2019 ToughDev 1 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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Web Development Web Hosting 

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

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General Programming Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

Developing a PC-speaker MIDI player for the IBM PC XT

September 12, 2018July 5, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment 8253, midi, ms dos, turbo c

In my experiment with a PC XT running on an NEC V20 at 12MHz, I attempted to play a MIDI

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Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

August 21, 2018July 12, 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 100KB of

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