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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Useful Projects
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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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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LD3320 Chinese Speech Recognition and MP3 Player Module
UPDATED (March 2018): A better English version of the datasheet can be found here. After my previous success in getting
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Using picojpeg library on a PIC with ILI9341 320×240 LCD module
I purchased a 320×240 LCD module which supports 320×240 resolution and comes with an SD card slot from eBay: This
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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
Read moreCustom USB HID device using PIC18F4550
With some free samples of PIC18F4550, the most popular micro-controller for hobbyist to build custom USB gadgets, several type of
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The good old days: cracking 16-bit DOS games
I recently wanted to play one of my favorite old games again, Zentris for DOS by Zensoft and realized how
Read moreInterfacing Nokia 3510i and 5110 LCD with PIC Microcontroller
Recently I started to regain some interest in embedded systems, and start to experiment with PIC micro-controllers. After some successful
Read moreRestoring SMS Backup from CSV to Blackberry devices
The tool in this article, CSV2IPD, reads text messages from CSV files and generates an IPD file that can be
Read moreTransferring SMS messages from Windows Mobile to Blackberry devices
UPDATE (12 Aug 2017): Due to some outstanding issues with the SMS2IPD tool such as Unicode support and message extraction
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