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DS0007 - Copy
Hardware Oscilloscope Reverse-engineer 

Rigol DS1054Z, GW-INSTEK GDS1054B and Hantek DSO4084C digital oscilloscopes

March 12, 2023April 1, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment DS1054Z, DSO4084C, GDS1054B, hantek, instek, rigol

Over a period of five years I have bought myself three low-end modern digital oscilloscopes, the Rigol DS1054Z, GW-INSTEK GDS1054B

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Twinhead A5020 laptop
Hardware Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Twinhead A5020 566MHz Intel Celeron laptop

October 12, 2020March 27, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment Twinhead

In order to play DOS and early Windows games, I searched eBay for a cheap laptop that can run Windows 98, preferably

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GoOO Office About
Microsoft Office Reverse-engineer Software Development Useful Projects Windows Tips 

Opening Office 2007 documents on Windows 98

September 15, 2020March 31, 2023 ToughDev 1 Comment microsoft office, office 2007, office 97, open office, win98, windows 98

On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional

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PXL_20210506_033204878
General Programming Hardware Reverse-engineer Software Development Vintage Computing 

Tweaking the AlphaSmart Neo, a great portable word processor with 700-hour battery life

August 19, 2020May 15, 2021 ToughDev 4 Comments alphasmart, basic, neo

Although I really love my AlphaSmart Dana, its limited battery life which requires recharging every couple of days as well as the

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ipc365_cr2032
Hardware Linux Reverse-engineer Software Development 

Reverse engineer the 360Eyes Pro (IPC365) wireless CCTV camera

September 9, 2019July 31, 2020 ToughDev 15 Comments 360eyes, cctv, ffmpeg, ipc365, rtsp, u-boot

Available on AliExpress, the 360Eyes Pro (also known as IPC365, from the default network host name of this camera) is

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alleycat_browser
Reverse-engineer Software Development Vintage Computing 

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

March 1, 2019July 30, 2020 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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super_mario_dosbox_svn
Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

July 9, 2018March 26, 2023 ToughDev 2 Comments 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

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adlib_clone_completed
Hardware Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing 

Rebuilding the 1987 AdLib Music Synthesizer Card

April 17, 2018May 22, 2018 ToughDev 1 Comment adlib, fusion pcb, gerber, kicad, ms dos, seeedstudio

In an attempt to bring sound to my PC XT clone without spending a lot of money on highly overpriced vintage sound

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linphone_name_invalid
Reverse-engineer VoIP Windows Tips 

Fixing video recording issues in Linphone v4.1.1 for Windows

October 19, 2017December 3, 2017 ToughDev 3 Comments c++, linphone, qt, windows

In one of my projects, I noticed an interesting issue with Linphone v4.1.1 for Windows, a popular open-source cross-platform VoIP application. If I attempted

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Screenshot from 2017-04-11 15-35-37
Mac 68k Mac OS Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing 

Exploring Retro68 GCC-based SDK for 68K Macintosh computers

March 11, 2017March 31, 2023 ToughDev 12 Comments 68k, gcc, mac os, macintosh, retro68

UPDATE: The 68k development environment with Retro68 together with CodeLite and pce/macplus emulator running on Ubuntu is now ready for

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IMG_20170319_002441_HDR_3
Reverse-engineer Windows Tips 

Data recovery after using ‘dd’ on the wrong partition

February 18, 2017March 27, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment data recovery, photorec, recuva, testdisk

During my recent experiment with the Raspberry Pi, I accidentally used dd on the wrong partition and wrote the Pi system image onto

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IMG_20170313_152110_HDR
Hardware Mac 68k Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing 

Repairing a vintage Macintosh SE/30

January 12, 2017March 31, 2023 ToughDev 15 Comments 68k, macintosh se/30, recap, scsi2sd

The Macintosh SE/30 is probably the most wanted Compact Macintosh computer due to its various upgrade options, especially the ability to support

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Since 2008, ToughDev has been publishing technical sharing articles on a wide range of topics from software development to electronics design. Our interests include, but are not limited to, Android/iOS programming, VoIP products, embedded design using Arduino/PIC microcontrollers, reverse-engineering, retro-computing, and many others. We also perform product reviews, both on new and vintage products, and share our findings with the community. In addition, our team also develops customized software/hardware solutions highly adapted to suit your needs.

Read our latest review of the DS1054Z/GDS1054B/DSO4084C oscilloscopes as well as our text-to-speech solution for the PIC24 for some examples of what we can do.

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