Super 8086 Box, my home-built PC XT emulator with Adlib, MPU-401, joystick and NE2000 support
In 2019 I played with 8086 Tiny Plus v1.34, developed by Jaybert Software and improved from the original 8086 Tiny
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Win32 API
Open 16-bit Windows applications natively on 64-bit Windows using OTVDM/winevdm
In my previous post I described how to run 16-bit DOS applications on 64-bit Windows using NTVDMx64. This post will
Read moreOpen a file with its default viewer using Windows API in C
The following will open a file with its default viewer. The behaviour is exactly the same as what will happen
Read moreAllow only digits in textbox
The following code apply ES_NUMBER to allow only digits to be typed into the edit control. Public Const GWL_STYLE As
Read moreMessageBox with Help button
Showing a four-button message box with the default set to the fourth button: int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hinst, HINSTANCE hinstPrev, LPSTR
Read moreDistinguish between different Windows versions
1. Check if Environment.OSVesion.Platform returns WIN32NT (for Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinME) or WIN32Windows (for WinNT and later) or WinCE (for
Read moreKill a process given its executable name.
BOOL KillProcessByName(const TCHAR* p_strEXE) { printf(“Attempting to terminate “); OutputDebugString(p_strEXE); printf(“n”); HANDLE hSnapShot = NULL; PROCESSENTRY32 pEntry = {0}; //
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