Emulating dual Hercules+CGA monitors setup with DOSBox
There is an interesting option called “Dual monitor support” located in the Options > Environment > Startup dialog of Turbo
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Vintage Computing
Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, a great IDE back in the 90s
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 566MHz Intel Celeron laptop
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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Tweaking the AlphaSmart Neo, a great portable word processor with 700-hour battery life
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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AlphaSmart Dana, an almost perfect typewriter running Palm OS 4.1
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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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
UPDATE (22 Aug 2022): A reader by the name of Henlin has adapted my build scripts to work with VSCode and
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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