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General Programming Software Development Vintage Computing 

Emulating dual Hercules+CGA monitors setup with DOSBox

July 30, 2021March 26, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment dosbox, turbo c, turbo pascal

There is an interesting option called “Dual monitor support” located in the Options > Environment > Startup dialog of Turbo

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tcdir
General Programming Microsoft Visual Studio Software Development Vintage Computing 

Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, a great IDE back in the 90s

June 25, 2021March 25, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment adlib, borland C, commander keen, compiler, disney, freepascal, keendreams, sound blaster, turbo c

I have to admit, I was never a heavy user of Turbo C back in the day. My journey as

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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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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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IMG_0174
General Programming Vintage Computing 

AlphaSmart Dana, an almost perfect typewriter running Palm OS 4.1

July 5, 2020May 6, 2021 ToughDev 0 Comment alphasmart, dana, palmos

I love the idea of distraction-free writing, which allows me to focus on my thoughts without any of the modern

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personal_deskmate_music_dosbox
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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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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pcxt_pcjs
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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powerpoint
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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codelite_menusample
Linux Mac 68k Software Development Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

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

December 23, 2018March 31, 2023 ToughDev 6 Comments codelite, retro68, ubuntu, virtualbox

UPDATE (22 Aug 2022): A reader by the name of Henlin has adapted my build scripts to work with VSCode and

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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 1 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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xfs191_virtualbox
Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

August 21, 2018September 10, 2022 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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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.

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