Reverse engineer the 360Eyes Pro (IPC365) wireless CCTV camera
Available on AliExpress, the 360Eyes Pro (also known as IPC365, from the default network host name of this camera) is
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Research
For those who like to perform various experiments, both in software and electronics, solely for the purpose of knowledge enrichment. It could be, for example, reverse engineering an old piece of hardware or to study vintage software design.
Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4
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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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
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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USB flash drives on 8-bit ISA bus using CH375 ISA to USB adapter
I purchased the CH375 ISA to USB adapter from Taobao, hoping for an easier way to transfer files to my
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