Trying Talk Machine: first impressions of a voice-first AI app
I recently spent some time testing Talk Machine, a voice-first app available on iOS, Android, and the web. I mainly
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Software Development
Patching an Inno Setup installer to run on Windows for ARM
After getting the Windows 7 Games package from Win7Games.com working well on ordinary x86 and x64 Windows 11 machines, I
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PIC32MZ Iomega ZIP100 Parallel Port Emulator [Part 2: LPT100 Hardware Design]
A few months after successfully getting Super 8086 Box, DOSBox-X, and QEMU to emulate an Iomega ZIP100 parallel-port ZIP drive,
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PIC32MZ Iomega ZIP100 Parallel Port Emulator [Part 1: DOSBox & QEMU Testing]
In early 2023 my beloved Iomega ZIP100 parallel port drive started to randomly eject disks. I figured that the drive
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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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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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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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Add Docker bash exit prompt to prevent accidental data loss during container preparation
During the development of my Docker container image running on Ubuntu, I often type exit after making changes to my
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