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WAD "Where's All the Data" files used by DOOM and various other games are simple containers, similar to zip and other archive formats, without additional complexity (such as compression) and data-centric rather than file. This article describes how to read the WAD files used by DOOM, DOOM II, Rise of the Triad and similar games of that area.
The article covers reading of a WAD and extracting its contents
A review of the Argon ONE Raspberry Pi 4 case and my initial experiences with it.
Installing Mopidy on a Raspberry Pi Zero W using the pHAT Beat audio hat.
A round up of the different software tools used by Cyotek over the past year.
When working with COM interop libraries you may receive the compile error "Interop type cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead". This article describes two common causes of this error and how to resolve it.
Although officially the Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 scanner is not supported on Windows 10 or Windows 11, I have found that it is fully functional. This article describes the versions of Windows I have tested the scanner with along with any observations.
A review of the book "The Ray Tracer Challenge", by Jamis Buck.
A brief note on assemblies compiled with Visual Studio 2019 and their compatibility with older Visual Studio tooling.
How to use a TypeConverter to provide editing of immutable structs that are properties of containing objects via a PropertyGrid.
The Windows Forms TextBox control doesn't offer an out of the box method for setting tabstops within the control,
this article describes how to achieve this via p/invoke.