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27 Jun 2021
Barcode Hunter: gaming on a logistics terminal
I like doing small projects and one-off games for my kids, and I’ve recently acquired a handheld industrial PDA with a barcode scanner that suggested an idea of a barcode-scanning game. It was quite …29 May 2021
Windows 2000 on an ARM Pinebook
I thought it would be fun to run Windows 2000 on a Pinebook - a nice little ARM-powered laptop. As there is no version targetting this architecture, we have to use an emulator. QEMU is a nice free …26 Mar 2021
Rolling your own on-screen keyboard
Rolling your own on-screen keyboard I wanted to play the Robotics;Notes visual novel on my Windows touchscreen tablet, but unfortunately the game only supports keyboard controls. While connecting a …14 Feb 2021
Fixing Saitek Heavy Equipment Wheel
As a fan of simulator games I’ve also tried a couple of steering wheel setups. I’ve been playing truck , bus and farming simulator games recently and wanted a somewhat different wheel. The complete …13 Feb 2021
Fixing laptop reboot after waking up from sleep
One of the most frustrating experiences with a computer is putting it to sleep, only to find it waking up as if it had been restarted. My ThinkPad T440p has guilty of doing exactly that every so …29 Jan 2021
4-in-1 game for the taskbar
A collection of minigames under 4 KB As a kid, I had a cheap 8 in 1 Brick Game handheld console, which had LCD display with large dots, 4 directional buttons and a speaker. Along with a couple of …