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Hardware Vintage Computing 

Creative Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects (CT4170) on a 80386

July 12, 2017November 5, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment 80386, creative, ms dos

I found a Creative Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects (CT4170) ISA sound card and installed it in my 80386 in order to play old

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Hardware Software Development Vintage Computing 

Setting up 3COM Etherlink 16 ISA network card

June 15, 2017November 11, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment 3c503, 80386, ms dos, packet driver

With some free time during the weekend and being a bit nostalgic, I pulled out a bunch of old ISA

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Hardware Vintage Computing 

Replacing the power supply in the Macintosh SE

May 4, 2017November 5, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment macintosh, power supply, repair

I was using my vintage Macintosh SE when it finally died – there was a loud bang followed by columns of

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Hardware Vintage Computing 

Changing the language on a Psion Series 5 PDA

April 4, 2017November 5, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment german, language, pda, psion, rom

I finally managed to locate my long-forgotten Psion Series 5 from my store room today. However, to my disappointment, the LCD

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Mac OS Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing 

Exploring Retro68 GCC-based SDK for 68K Macintosh computers

March 11, 2017October 21, 2017 ToughDev 11 Comments 68k, gcc, mac os, macintosh, retro68

Being a fan of vintage Apple computers, I have always been looking for a modern way to build apps for

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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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Hardware Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing 

Repairing a vintage Macintosh SE/30

January 12, 2017March 28, 2017 ToughDev 7 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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Mac OS Vintage Computing 

System 6.0.8 on a vintage Macintosh SE with 4MB RAM

December 26, 2016March 27, 2017 ToughDev 4 Comments 68k, mac os, macintosh se, raspberry pi, scsi2sd

Last week I found a vintage Macintosh SE that had long been hidden inside the store room of my apartment. The machine could not

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Mac OS Vintage Computing 

PCE/macplus, the ultimate 68K Macintosh emulator

November 25, 2016April 11, 2017 ToughDev 3 Comments 68k, emulator, mac os, pce/macplus

I have long been trying to find a fully-fledged 68k Macintosh emulator that can run System 7 and older, with

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General Programming Software Development 

Exploring Paralex paraphrase-driven open question answering engine

October 12, 2016February 13, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment natural language processing, nlp, python

Out of curiosity, I did a quick research to find out whether there are any existing solutions that provide answers for open (but simple)

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Web Development Web Hosting 

My Bluehost VPS upgrade experience

September 26, 2016January 26, 2017 ToughDev 0 Comment bluehost, customer service, linode, mojo marketplace, sentora, upgrade, vps, webmin, WordPress

I have been a Bluehost customer since December 2014 when I decided to purchase their shared hosting package to host toughdev.com

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