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Developer's Diary
Software development, with Terry Ebdon
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Developer's Diary
Software development, with Terry Ebdon
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Following on from Tuesday's HTC Advantage post, I've been thinking about setting up a development environment for it. I suspect the tool chain is too old to work on Windows 10. I could install Windows XP and Visual Studio in a VM, e.g. VirtualBox, or maybe dust off and resurrect the ancient Acer CM301 Windows tablet.
I used to have a Visual C++ development environment on my Toshiba Libretto, back in my Pocket PC days. I have two of these, one of which I know works as I have it set up next to the radio desk. I'll be surprised if it doesn't have Visual Studio installed.
That machine has slowed down to a glacial pace, it really needs a purge of the system partition and a reinstall of Windows 2000. Unfortunately I couldn't get Windows XP to work on it, back in the days when the Tosh was my "everyday carry" machine. The hard drive has five or more partitions, so I should be able to reinstall everything with no data loss, providing I make a of note what's installed and the license keys. I do have backups of the machine, though a current one is probably a good idea.
A few months back I gave away the two DVD drives that I know work with a Libretto. I still have a couple of USB optical drives, so might be able to go that route. The Libretto doesn't have built-in USB, but Toshiba made a docking station with a single USB port, which I have. This was an optional extra, not the tiny "travel adapter" the machine came with; the travel one doesn't do USB. I also have a two port USB PCMCIA card. This is an old-school system. I should be able to get that going, depending on the availability of USB drivers in the Windows 2000 set-up environment. An alternative might be to copy the distribution media to a compact flash card, as the Libretto has a pair of PCMCIA slots with a third available in the optional dock.
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