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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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.NET Framework Database Software Development Useful Projects 

Making good sense of the 1TB Yahoo Geocities data archive

November 11, 2018October 17, 2022 ToughDev 1 Comment geocities, linq, sql, torrent

I got to know Yahoo Geocities in 2001 during a crash course on basic HTML and web design. Looking back,

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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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English text to speech on a PIC microcontroller

September 22, 2014July 5, 2019 ToughDev 5 Comments

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

August 27, 2014April 17, 2020 ToughDev 17 Comments

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

March 11, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 12 Comments

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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Hardware Logic Analyzer Microcontroller Reverse-engineer Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

Capturing data from a Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer by emulating a parallel port printer

February 2, 2014October 6, 2016 ToughDev 22 Comments

UPDATE: Refer to my latest article for a full review of the Tektronix 1230 logic analyzer. As a fan of

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.NET Framework Hardware Oscilloscope Software Development Useful Projects Vintage Computing 

Programming the Tektronix TDS 340 100MHz digital storage oscilloscope

January 14, 2014July 30, 2020 ToughDev 8 Comments

In my previous article I provided some information on the Tektronix TDS 340 100 MHz digital storage oscilloscope and instructions

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Hardware Microcontroller Useful Projects 

Custom USB HID device using PIC18F4550

May 15, 2013 ToughDev 3 Comments

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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General Programming Reverse-engineer Software Development Useful Projects 

The good old days: cracking 16-bit DOS games

January 15, 2012May 22, 2018 ToughDev 17 Comments

I recently wanted to play one of my favorite old games again, Zentris for DOS by Zensoft and realized how

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General Programming Hardware LCD Modules Microcontroller SPI Useful Projects 

Interfacing Nokia 3510i and 5110 LCD with PIC Microcontroller

March 23, 2011April 4, 2020 ToughDev 12 Comments

Recently I started to regain some interest in embedded systems, and start to experiment with PIC micro-controllers. After some successful

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