Super 8086 Box, my home-built PC XT emulator with Adlib, MPU-401, joystick and NE2000 support
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]
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]
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
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
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
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
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
I got to know Yahoo Geocities in 2001 during a crash course on basic HTML and web design. Looking back,
Read moreDeveloping a PC-speaker MIDI player for the IBM PC XT
In my experiment with a PC XT running on an NEC V20 at 12MHz, I attempted to play a MIDI
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Rebuilding the 1987 AdLib Music Synthesizer Card
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
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
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
In my previous article I provided some information on the Tektronix TDS 340 100 MHz digital storage oscilloscope and instructions
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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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