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General Programming Software Development Vintage Computing 

Mario Final v2.0, the ultimate Super Mario clone for MS-DOS

October 31, 2025January 15, 2026 ToughDev 0 Comment dosbox, mario, ms dos, super angelo, turbo pascal

Earlier this month, a reader got in touch and mentioned that old experiment I did with MARIO.EXE, the Super Mario clone

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Hardware Oscilloscope Vintage Computing 

MM-9M 10″ portable 800-line vintage B&W CRT monitor

June 29, 2025August 24, 2025 ToughDev 0 Comment composite, crt, dosbox, norton commander, tecsun

I love B&W CRT displays, for they bring back old memories of the long-lost past, of the first time I

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Android General Programming Microsoft Office Software Development Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Running Windows apps on Xiaomi POCO Pad Android 14 tablet via Winlator

March 22, 2025May 16, 2025 ToughDev 0 Comment bosh, dosbox, limbo x86, windows 95, windows 98, wine, winlator

I decided to spend the weekend making full use of my Xiaomi POCO Pad 12″ tablet, which features 8GB of

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General Programming Linux Software Development Vintage Computing 

Dosbian-X 2.0: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a 486DX emulator

February 24, 2025March 17, 2025 ToughDev 0 Comment debian, dosbian, dosbox, ms dos, raspberry pi

I came across Dosbian-X 2.0, an interesting customized version of Debian 12 that boots straight into DOSbox, one of my

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Networking Popular Articles Software Development Vintage Computing Win32 API Windows Tips 

Super 8086 Box, my home-built PC XT emulator with Adlib, MPU-401, joystick and NE2000 support

August 15, 2023January 6, 2026 ToughDev 5 Comments 8086tiny, c++, dosbox, msdos

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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CodeProject General Programming Microsoft Visual Studio Software Development Windows Tips 

Compiling WinQEMU v0.10.2 using Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2012

October 15, 2022December 23, 2023 ToughDev 10 Comments c++, dosbox, qemu, winqemu

Earlier this year I managed to get DOSBox-X to boot Ubuntu 9.10, as least as far as dropping into the

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nofloppy
CodeProject General Programming Linux Software Development Windows Tips 

Getting Linux to boot on DOSBox-X

May 30, 2022April 4, 2023 ToughDev 0 Comment dosbox, dosbox-x, ubuntu, virtualbox

I have always wanted to boot a simple Linux distro using DOSBox. What are the challenges you may ask? Well,

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memmore
CodeProject Software Development Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Open 16-bit DOS applications natively on 64-bit Windows using NTVDMx64

August 19, 2021April 4, 2023 ToughDev 1 Comment dosbox, ntvdm, ntvdmx64, windows 11

Running 16-bit DOS applications natively on 64-bit versions of Windows without the use of an emulator such as DOSBox is

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General Programming Software Development Vintage Computing 

Emulating dual Hercules+CGA monitors setup with DOSBox

July 30, 2021May 8, 2023 ToughDev 4 Comments dosbox, turbo c, turbo pascal

There is an interesting option called “Dual monitor support” located in the Options > Environment > Startup dialog of Turbo

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CodeProject Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

Exploring Tandy Deskmate on DOSBox v0.7.4

June 28, 2019May 30, 2025 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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Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

8086 Tiny Plus, a lightweight PC XT emulator with CGA/MCGA graphics

January 15, 2019May 10, 2025 ToughDev 0 Comment 8086tiny, dosbox, msdos, picoxt

UPDATE (Aug 2023) – Read my latest article on Super 8086 Box, which is an improved version of 8086 Tiny

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CodeProject Reverse-engineer Vintage Computing Windows Tips 

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

July 9, 2018April 4, 2023 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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About ToughDev

Since 2008, ToughDev has explored embedded systems, software development, reverse engineering, and retro computing, bridging legacy hardware with modern software. We work on mobile applications, VoIP, microcontroller firmware, and hands-on development with vintage and undocumented systems.

Recent projects includes the Super 8086 Box PC XT emulator, the dsMP3 embedded radio, and detailed teardowns of vintage PCs such as the Tandy 2500RSX.

If you’re interested in technical consulting, custom development, or engaging us on a project, please visit our home page to learn more about our work or request a quotation.

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