Simulating key presses on Android devices
I need to develop an application that is capable of communicating with another Android application to perform a few specific
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Author: ToughDev
Playing Alley Cat, a classic MS-DOS game, from your web browser
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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Exploring PCx86, an IBM PC emulator written in JavaScript
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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8086 Tiny Plus, a lightweight PC XT emulator with CGA/MCGA graphics
DosBox has always been my favorite emulator to experiment with vintage PC software, but I still love the idea of
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Developing vintage 68K Macintosh apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus emulator
In my previous post I described how Retro68 can be used to compile 68K Macintosh apps from your modern Linux
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Making good sense of the 1TB Yahoo Geocities data archive
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
Despite implementing various measures such as removing the link field from WordPress comment form as well as adding Google reCAPTCHA, thousands
Read moreDeveloping a PC-speaker MIDI player for the IBM PC XT
In my experiment with a PC XT running on an NEC V20 at 12MHz, I attempted to play a MIDI
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Using NFS to transfer files between Windows and MS-DOS 6.22
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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Experimenting with DOSBox SVN-Daum, a custom DOSBox build by ykhwong
While watching a Youtube video that demonstrates how to use the Roland MT-32 MIDI synthesizer with DOSBox, I came across DOSBox
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Using Microsoft Network Client 3.0 for MS-DOS with modern versions of Windows
In order to facilitate transferring files from my main PC to my VirtualBox machine running MS-DOS 6.22, I installed Microsoft
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