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Super 8086 Box, my home-built PC XT emulator with Adlib, MPU-401, joystick and NE2000 support

August 15, 2023May 26, 2025 ToughDev 2 Comments 8086tiny, c++, dosbox, msdos

In 2019 I played with 8086 Tiny Plus v1.34, developed by Jaybert Software and improved from the original 8086 Tiny

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dsMP3, my LW/MW/FM/SW radio with MP3 recording/playback [Part 2 – Firmware Design]

July 19, 2023May 25, 2025 ToughDev 0 Comment ch375, ch376, dspic

UPDATE (May 2025) – Check out Hackaday’s write-up of the dsMP3 project here In my previous post I described how

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dsMP3, my LW/MW/FM/SW radio with MP3 recording/playback [Part 1 – Hardware Design]

May 15, 2023May 16, 2025 ToughDev 0 Comment ch375, ch376, dspic, rtc, si4735, tda1308

UPDATE (May 2025) – Check out Hackaday’s write-up of the dsMP3 project here Wondering why even high-end multiband radios such

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Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, a great IDE back in the 90s

June 25, 2021May 9, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment adlib, borland C, commander keen, compiler, disney, freepascal, keendreams, sound blaster, turbo c

I have to admit, I was never a heavy user of Turbo C back in the day. My journey as

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Open Office 2007 documents on Windows 98

September 15, 2020February 22, 2025 ToughDev 1 Comment microsoft office, office 2007, office 97, open office, win98, windows 98

On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional

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Reverse engineer the 360Eyes Pro (IPC365) wireless CCTV camera

September 9, 2019May 9, 2023 ToughDev 15 Comments 360eyes, cctv, ffmpeg, ipc365, rtsp, u-boot

Available on AliExpress, the 360Eyes Pro (also known as IPC365, from the default network host name of this camera) is

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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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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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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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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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English text to speech on a PIC microcontroller

September 22, 2014May 9, 2023 ToughDev 5 Comments

I have always been a fan of the TTS256 – a tiny but great English text-to-speech IC based on a

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Capturing data from a Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer by emulating a parallel port printer

February 2, 2014May 9, 2023 ToughDev 22 Comments

UPDATE: Refer to my latest article for a full review of the Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer. As a fan of

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Programming the Tektronix TDS 340 100MHz digital storage oscilloscope

January 14, 2014May 9, 2023 ToughDev 16 Comments

In my previous article I provided some information on the Tektronix TDS 340 100 MHz digital storage oscilloscope and instructions

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Fixing “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system” when running OS X Lion on VMWare

July 27, 2012May 9, 2023 ToughDev 92 Comments

My OS X Lion VMware image, which has always been working fine on my computer, a 2.53GHz Intel Core i5

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About ToughDev

Since 2008, ToughDev has been extensively exploring a variety of technical topics—from software development to electronics design. Key areas of focus include Android and iOS programming, VoIP technologies, embedded systems using Arduino and PIC microcontrollers, reverse engineering, and retro-computing.

Recent highlights include running macOS Sequoia on a Dell Latitude, teardown of the vintage Tandy 2500RSX—a powerful 386 system by Tandy Corporation, the Super 8086 Box—a home-built PC XT emulator with full legacy hardware support— and the dsMP3, a custom-designed multi-band radio with MP3 recording and playback.

Got something cool or curious to share? Get in touch—whether it's a retro challenge, embedded puzzle, or deep tech curiosity, I’m always open to fresh ideas and unique projects. You can also learn more about what I do on the About ToughDev page

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