About

I’ve been pondering for a very long time if I should start a blog or not and, as obvious as it is, I’ve decided that I should.

This blog shall be used to, primarily, share some of the stuff I code when I want to learn a certain technology or I need to prepare for some project. Although most of the programs that come out of this learning and experimentation process are often useless, they tend to be quite curios, entertaining and, well, interesting. Some of them have actually came to be final products so I thought this would be a nice way to share them. Who knows, someone might actually find some of these prototypes of applications useful.

That being the main purpose of this blog, I’ll also be using this “communication channel” and/or “social portal” as a “release valve”.
Sometimes I have the need to scream, shout, and rant about some topics that deeply bother me and this will be the place to do so – hopefully, this will relieve some of the stress I usually unload onto my wife.

So, that being said I must advise you:
If you are easily annoyed, offended or otherwise bothered by sincere, alternative, direct, open minded or controversial ideas, thoughts or comments then I encourage you to leave this blog at once.

  • http://www.facebook.com/marshall.hackworth Marshall Hackworth

    u seem to have the skills and the interest to tackle the Traktor Pro TSI editor..  

    • http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix

      I guess that would be a quite interesting project.
      Thank you for your comment and suggestion…

  • http://www.facebook.com/kingsandesh Sandesh Gawai

    respected sir
    Do u hav the 8086 emulator source code and project report .?
    can u please send me your project report and the source code as i have work on the same project for my college . 
    I will be thank full to you .
    regards 
    supersandesh123@gmail.com

    • http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix

      Hello Sandesh,

      Unfortunately, the 8086 emulator is not finished yet and appears to have a bug (which I haven’t been able to rectify) which prevents it from being usable as it won’t boot any OS.

      Here’s a screenshot (at the bottom of the message) showing the emulator “trying” to boot MS DOS 3.3
      As you can see on the debugger window, the CS:IP has jumped to an invalid memory section and it’s executing some invalid code.
      This happens with all OSs I’ve tried.

      As soon as I’ve corrected this issue I will publish the emulator (with its source code), but right now, it’s basically unusable…

      There are many x8086 emulators available for free and some even include the source code.
      Just to mention a few:
      - fake86
      - PCE – PC Emulator
      - PCem
      - Retro