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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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Hardware Software Development Windows Tips 

HP Stream 14-bs153od 64GB eMMC 14″ laptop

January 17, 2020April 12, 2020 ToughDev 1 Comment bs153od, emmc, hp

I received the HP Stream 14-bs153od 14″ laptop with 64GB eMMC and 4GB RAM from a friend and spent a

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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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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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xfs191_virtualbox
Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Using NFS to transfer files between Windows and MS-DOS 6.22

August 21, 2018September 10, 2022 ToughDev 0 Comment ms dos, nfs, unix

Although I successfully configured Microsoft Network Client 3.0 to access my shared folder on my Windows 7 machine, the setup eats up almost 100KB of

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super_mario_dosbox_svn
Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Experimenting with DOSBox SVN-Daum, a custom DOSBox build by ykhwong

July 9, 2018June 11, 2019 ToughDev 2 Comments dosbox, SVN-Daum, ykhwong

While watching a Youtube video that demonstrates how to use the Roland MT-32 MIDI synthesizer with DOSBox, I came across DOSBox

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dos_network_client
Networking Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Using Microsoft Network Client 3.0 for MS-DOS with modern versions of Windows

June 8, 2018September 10, 2022 ToughDev LAN Manager, microsoft network client, Samba

In order to facilitate transferring files from my main PC to my VirtualBox machine running MS-DOS 6.22, I installed Microsoft

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QDSP_2050_front
Hardware Windows Tips 

QDSP-2050 Pentium P6200 Mini x64 Desktop PC

February 23, 2018May 26, 2018 ToughDev 3 Comments embedded, intel pentium, mini pc, qdsp-2050

In my quest for a small form factor 64-bit machine to be used as a home server, I came across

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.NET Framework Software Development Windows Tips 

Fixing PlatformNotSupportedException when running Window Communication Foundation applications

December 20, 2017May 22, 2018 ToughDev 0 Comment platformnotsupportedexception, wcf

A few days ago when attempting to run a custom Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) application on a customer’s server, I encountered the

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