Pocket 386 retro laptop experiments: AdLib, Covox, and VGA
The Pocket 386 comes with an OPL3 sound card, which is just barely enough for DOS gaming. For a $200
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Mario Final v2.0, the ultimate Super Mario clone for MS-DOS
Earlier this month, a reader got in touch and mentioned that old experiment I did with MARIO.EXE, the Super Mario clone
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Exploring MSX-DOS and CP/M on OneChipBook FPGA-powered laptop
The OneChipBook, available on AliExpress for around $200, is a very interesting FPGA-powered laptop with 32MB RAM, a 10-inch 1024×768
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Internet access from Pocket 386 retro laptop using Wemos D1 ESP8266 serial Wifi adapter
Although there is a USB port on the Pocket 386, I seldom use it for file transfer. The device driver,
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Booting straight to Windows 98 on a modern laptop using Kubuntu and 86Box
I had some free time during the weekend and decided to see whether I could configure my Intel Core i7
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MM-9M 10″ portable 800-line vintage B&W CRT monitor
I love B&W CRT displays, for they bring back old memories of the long-lost past, of the first time I
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My journey with the Book 8088: swapping CGA/VGA cards, broken CF slot, and USB booting
Out of curiosity, I purchased two Book 8088 units from AliExpress, one with CGA and the other with VGA, hoping
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Sharp Font Writer FW 600 Vintage 1984 Word Processor with Printer
In late 2022, I acquired the Sharp FW-600 Font Writer – a vintage word processor with a built-in printer, originally
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Running Windows apps on Xiaomi POCO Pad Android 14 tablet via Winlator
I decided to spend the weekend making full use of my Xiaomi POCO Pad 12″ tablet, which features 8GB of
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Dosbian-X 2.0: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a 486DX emulator
I came across Dosbian-X 2.0, an interesting customized version of Debian 12 that boots straight into DOSbox, one of my
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Install macOS Sequoia 15 on Dell Latitude 5410 laptop using OpenCore bootloader
Even when I already have a Mac Mini M2 Pro, I still play with Hackintosh. I love the ability to
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Open Windows Write (WRI) files on Windows 11 using legacy versions of WordPad
In my previous post a few years ago, I found that CWordPad, a WordPad clone for Windows 98, can open
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Back up copyright-protected DVDs as MKV using DVD Shrink, MakeMKV and ffmpeg
Many DVDs in my movie collection have degraded with age, so it’s time to back them up to a more
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Locate recently connected USB devices on Windows
I had a USB to Ethernet adapter which worked fine on Ubuntu 24 but did not work out of the
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3CX Phone System version 20: new features, API support and hosting flexibilities
The last time I worked with 3CX was back in 2018, during a call center deployment where I used the
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