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Every journey comes to an end, and this is the end of a very personal journey that started back in May 2025.

While working with the game files of Masters of the Elements, I found something exciting hidden in one of the script files: Multiple, undocumented cheat and debug codes.

While recently going through the latest commit messages for the incredible PC emulator 86Box in preparation for their release of version 5.0, I stumbled across commit 8944c92 with the following commit message: CD-ROM: Parity and CRC checking support, Syst…

In the previous part of this series, we finally fixed the game itself by removing the broken library and replacing it with a more modern alternative.

I briefly talked about Xtras and XObjects in the first part of this series.

For my next small side project, I'm running a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a proxy server for my website.

In Macromedia Director, everything is related to cinematography and theaters.

Masters of the Elements (or Meister Zufall und die Herrscher der Elemente in Germany) is an educational adventure video game developed by the Dutch studio IJsfontein Interactive Media, initially released in late 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

One part of my work for the ScummVM project is helping to keep the server infrastructure up and running, including our primary server, which hosts our website, wiki, forums, and some internal applications.

In June 2022, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer would be phased out.

For my previous article, I added Syntax highlighting to my Hugo installation.

This is the first episode of a new series: BTS, short for "Behind the Scenes".

On April 25, 2024, Microsoft released the source code of MS-/PC-DOS 4.00 to the public, and the community managed to provide MS-DOS 4.01 as well.

March 1995.

Today, I'm excited to finally announce a new side project I've been working on for quite a while.

Introduction Have you ever noticed that a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode looks slightly off?

Do you know what computer games and the Voyager space probes have in common?

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the source code of MS-/PC-DOS 4.00 to the public.

On April 25, 2024, Microsoft released the source code of MS-/PC-DOS 4.00 to the public.

A brief introduction I launched my Daily MS-DOS command bot a few months ago.

Microsoft released the last standalone version of MS-DOS as MS-DOS 6.22 in 1994.

In my previous article, I described how I managed to install Windows 2000 in DOSBox-X.

DOSBox was one of the first emulators I used when I learned about emulation back in the early 2000s.

A few days ago, I posted an image that showcased an ASCII art representation of a Raichu from the Alola region.

Back in March 2023, we heard about Meta's plans to join the fediverse for the first time after they confirmed that they are working on a Twitter-like alternative using the ActivityPub protocol.

With decentralization and federation in mind, Mastodon allows exporting a list of all the accounts you follow directly from within the GUI.

There are some things in life you will remember forever.

Since virtual machines created with KVM/QEMU are not simple containers but quite isolated from the host's environment, exchanging data and information between the host and the VMs can be a bit tricky.

Windows has some pretty amazing backward compatibility.

"A new project?

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Ever since I discovered the Myst series back in 2005, I'm in love with it.

One of the main advantages of snap packages is the possibility to use them not only on one Linux distribution like 'traditional' packages, but on a wide variety of distributions without having to modify or rebuild them.

Over the last couple of years, I aquired a nice collection of various domains.

For my ScummVM nightly server, I'm using the apache2 module mod_autoindex.