Twinhead A5020 566MHz Intel Celeron laptop
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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Research
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.
Opening 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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Tweaking the AlphaSmart Neo, a great portable word processor with 700-hour battery life
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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AlphaSmart Dana, an almost perfect typewriter running Palm OS 4.1
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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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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Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4
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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Playing Alley Cat, a classic MS-DOS game, from your web browser
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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Exploring PCx86, an IBM PC emulator written in JavaScript
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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8086 Tiny Plus, a lightweight PC XT emulator with CGA/MCGA graphics
DosBox has always been my favorite emulator to experiment with vintage PC software, but I still love the idea of
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Developing vintage 68K Macintosh apps with CodeLite IDE, Retro68 and pce-macplus emulator
In my previous post I described how Retro68 can be used to compile 68K Macintosh apps from your modern Linux
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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