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Exploring software, electronics, retro tech, custom hardware builds, teardowns, reverse engineering, and hands-on tech insights. toughdev.com Singapore Joined January 2015

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3 months ago

What the metrics remember: almost two decades of technical writing on ToughDev toughdev.com/content/2026/0…

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3 months ago

JSP syntax highlighting in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition toughdev.com/content/2026/0…

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3 months ago

Patching an Inno Setup installer to run on Windows for ARM toughdev.com/content/2026/0…

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3 months ago

Running Windows XP and Windows 10 ARM on UTM for Mac toughdev.com/content/2026/0…

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6 months ago

@Smith65557 How are you

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6 months ago

@Smith65557 Hi

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7 months ago

I built an Iomega ZIP100 parallel port emulator using the PIC32MZ EF Starter Kit. Disk images (up to 1GB) are stored on USB. Speed around 6-7KB/s on Book 8088. Tested on DOSBox/QEMU up to Windows XP. Demo: youtu.be/340J7vItfPw . Read more: toughdev.com/content/2026/0…

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7 months ago

@RetroTechChris This is ToughDev the author of the build. Thanks for sharing my work! More details on the build, including protocol and hardware design can be found here: toughdev.com/content/2026/0…

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10 months ago

I picked up two Book 8088 units and ended up swapping CGA/VGA cards, breaking the CF slot, and booting DOS from USB via XTIDE BIOS. Classic retro tinkering. Read more: toughdev.com/content/2025/0…

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10 months ago

Picked up several MM-9M 10″ B&W CRT monitors and couldn’t resist testing them with DVDs and DOS apps. Chroma dots, BNC inputs, pure retro vibes. Read more: toughdev.com/content/2025/0…

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10 months ago

I spent a weekend making a modern Core i7 laptop boot straight into Windows 98 using Kubuntu text mode and 86Box—nostalgia achieved. Read more: toughdev.com/content/2025/0…

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10 months ago

A reader reached out about Mario for DOS by Mike Wiering. Nearly 15 years after my experiment, and years since I last looked at the source, there’s now Mario Final v2.0. Read more: toughdev.com/content/2025/1…

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10 months ago

I spent a weekend getting Internet access on a Pocket 386 using a $2 ESP8266 serial Wi-Fi adapter—ping, HTTP, and even text-mode browsing over DOS. Read more: toughdev.com/content/2025/0…

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10 months ago

Exploring MSX-DOS and CP/M on the OneChipBook FPGA laptop: MSX2+, quirky DOS behavior, classic editors, and even WordStar running fine. Read more: toughdev.com/content/2025/0…

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10 months ago

@CarolBTome @UPS Does UPS ship parcels from Singapore to Vietnam via Shenzhen and then Seoul? Sounds like a waste of fuel. Scheduled to be delivered within 2 days. ETA is now N/A. Custom service is clueless. This is a joke to me. Tell me when I will get my parcel?

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10 months ago

@CarolBTome Does UPS ship parcels from Singapore to Vietnam via Shenzhen and then Seoul? Sounds like a waste of fuel. Scheduled to be delivered within 2 days. ETA is now N/A. Custom service is clueless. This is a joke to me. Tell me when I will get my parcel?

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a year ago

Super 8086 Box, my home-built PC XT emulator, improved from the original 8086 Tiny Plus by Jaybert Software, with Adlib, MPU-401, joystick and NE2000 support toughdev.com/content/2023/0…

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a year ago

dsMP3, my LW/MW/FM/SW radio with MP3 recording/playback, built using the dsPIC33EP512MC502 and Si4735. Features on Hackaday: hackaday.com/2025/05/04/all…

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a year ago

Testing the Sharp Font Writer FW 600, vintage 1984 word processor with printer. The floppy drive and printer still works! - toughdev.com/content/2025/0…

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a year ago

@MicrochipMakes Minh Danh here. Thanks for sharing my project! Audio is played via PWM and keyboard interface is through a single analog pin using a resistor ladder. Remote control is through TFMS5400. dsMP3 also records radio into WAV files. toughdev.com/content/2023/0…