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For those who like to perform various experiments, both in software and electronics, solely for the purpose of knowledge enrichment. It could be, for example, reverse engineering an old piece of hardware or to study vintage software design.

Twinhead A5020 laptop
Hardware Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Twinhead A5020 566MHz Intel Celeron laptop

October 12, 2020October 17, 2022 ToughDev 0 Comment Twinhead

In order to play DOS and early Windows games, I searched eBay for a cheap laptop that can run Windows 98, preferably

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GoOO Office About
Microsoft Office Reverse-engineer Software Development Windows Tips 

Opening Office 2007 documents on Windows 98

September 15, 2020October 17, 2022 ToughDev 1 Comment microsoft office, open office, win98

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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PXL_20210506_033204878
General Programming Hardware Reverse-engineer Software Development Vintage Computing 

Tweaking the AlphaSmart Neo, a great portable word processor with 700-hour battery life

August 19, 2020May 15, 2021 ToughDev 2 Comments alphasmart, basic, neo

Although I really love my AlphaSmart Dana, its limited battery life which requires recharging every couple of days as well as the

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IMG_0174
General Programming Vintage Computing 

AlphaSmart Dana, an almost perfect typewriter running Palm OS 4.1

July 5, 2020May 6, 2021 ToughDev 0 Comment alphasmart, dana, palmos

I love the idea of distraction-free writing, which allows me to focus on my thoughts without any of the modern

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ipc365_cr2032
Hardware Linux Reverse-engineer Software Development 

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

September 9, 2019July 31, 2020 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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personal_deskmate_music_dosbox
Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4

June 28, 2019July 5, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment deskmate, dosbox, tandy

My first computer was a Tandy 1000 RSX. It has a 25MHz 80386SX processor, 4MB of RAM and 100MB hard disk

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alleycat_browser
Reverse-engineer Software Development Vintage Computing 

Playing Alley Cat, a classic MS-DOS game, from your web browser

March 1, 2019July 30, 2020 ToughDev 0 Comment alleycat, pcjs, pcx86

Last week I explored gabonator’s Visual C++ and Javascript port of Alley Cat, one of my favourite DOS games. The project, despite being apparently

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pcxt_pcjs
Vintage Computing Web Development Windows Tips 

Exploring PCx86, an IBM PC emulator written in JavaScript

February 6, 2019June 16, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment pcjs, pcx86

I came across PCjs, a JavaScript-based emulator that supports many different vintage computer architectures and spent last week setting up my first web-based PC

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powerpoint
Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

8086 Tiny Plus, a lightweight PC XT emulator with CGA/MCGA graphics

January 15, 2019July 25, 2019 ToughDev 0 Comment 8086tiny, dosbox, msdos, picoxt

DosBox has always been my favorite emulator to experiment with vintage PC software, but I still love the idea of

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codelite_menusample
Linux Software Development Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

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

December 23, 2018August 22, 2022 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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General Programming Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

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

September 12, 2018July 5, 2019 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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