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Year: 2018

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CodeProject Linux Mac 68k Popular Articles Software Development Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

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

December 23, 2018May 9, 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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.NET Framework CodeProject Database Popular Articles Software Development Useful Projects 

Making good sense of the 1TB Yahoo Geocities data archive

November 11, 2018May 9, 2023 ToughDev 1 Comment geocities, linq, sql, torrent

I got to know Yahoo Geocities in 2001 during a crash course on basic HTML and web design. Looking back,

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CodeProject Web Development Web Hosting 

Reducing comment spam on WordPress sites by editing wp-comments-post.php

October 23, 2018April 4, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment WordPress

Despite implementing various measures such as removing the link field from WordPress comment form as well as adding Google reCAPTCHA, thousands

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CodeProject General Programming Popular Articles Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

Developing a PC-speaker MIDI player for the IBM PC XT

September 12, 2018May 9, 2023 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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CodeProject Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

August 21, 2018April 4, 2023 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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CodeProject Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

July 9, 2018April 4, 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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CodeProject Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Using Microsoft Network Client 3.0 for MS-DOS with modern versions of Windows

June 8, 2018April 4, 2023 ToughDev LAN Manager, microsoft network client, Samba

In order to facilitate transferring files from my main PC to my VirtualBox machine running MS-DOS 6.22, I installed Microsoft

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.NET Framework 3CX CodeProject Software Development VoIP 

3CX Call Control API on 3CX Phone System version 15

May 8, 2018April 4, 2023 ToughDev 16 Comments 3cx, call control api, pjsip, voip

I revisited the 3CX Call Control API in one of my latest projects, this time on 3CX version 15.5. The last

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CodeProject Hardware Microcontroller Vintage Computing 

USB flash drives on 8-bit ISA bus using CH375 ISA to USB adapter

April 29, 2018June 5, 2023 ToughDev bios, ch375, ida pro, isa to usb, ms dos

I purchased the CH375 ISA to USB adapter from Taobao, hoping for an easier way to transfer files to my

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Hardware Popular Articles Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing 

Rebuilding the 1987 AdLib Music Synthesizer Card

April 17, 2018May 9, 2023 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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Hardware Mac 68k Mac OS Vintage Computing 

Dove Fastnet Ethernet card for Macintosh SE

March 23, 2018May 4, 2023 ToughDev 3 Comments dove fastnet, macintosh se

In order to get my Macintosh SE connected to the network via Ethernet, I bough a cheap Dove Fastnet Ethernet

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Hardware Windows Tips 

QDSP-2050 Pentium P6200 Mini x64 Desktop PC

February 23, 2018May 4, 2023 ToughDev 3 Comments embedded, intel pentium, mini pc, qdsp-2050

In my quest for a small form factor 64-bit machine to be used as a home server, I came across

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Hardware Linux 

Dell OptiPlex FX160 Intel Atom 230 Tiny Desktop PC

January 15, 2018May 4, 2023 ToughDev 4 Comments b43, embedded, fx160, intel atom, sis 671, ubuntu, vesa

After exploring the Habey BIS-6620 Intel Atom Z510 Fanless Embedded PC, I bought the Dell Optiplex FX160, another small form

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