Derrick was a hybrid monolithic 16/32-bit kernel which I wrote in FASM in 2008, as a former member of the OSdev.org community. Derrick can be executed on a machine equipped with at least an 80386 CPU, runs from a floppy disk and will execute everything in ring 0 to be as fast as possible (kernel mode). Derrick was made from boredom and was more like an experiment – there was no main … [read more]
USB DVB-T Dongle
In mid-2010, Slovakia had been converting into DVB-T and analog terrestrial TV transmitters were continually phased out. On April 30th, a new DVB-T transmitter, located just a few kilometers away from me, was put into service. I was already using an IP TV with two receivers (set-top-boxes) at that time, however there was no TV in my bedroom and I got a different idea: if there’s… [read more]
ST-WARE Softworks
I used to publish small freeware Win32 applications and system tools under the name ST-WARE Softworks. Because the original site is now defunct, I decided to put up a mirror for all of them here. Feel free to share – however since I have released them quite a long time ago, no additional support is provided. Please update your links or bookmarks.… [read more]
Triple333 (333-333-333)
Triple333, or 333-333-333, is a Wolfenstein 3D-like first person shooter I’ve made, heavily inspired by -among others- the fake television hijack Wyoming Incident, Max Headroom WTTW TV pirate (that happened for real!), Russian “Wyoming incident parody” БЕЗНОГNМ and the scary ВИD mask, which itself was a logo of a Russian private TV company.… [read more]
The Hilarity of Machine Transliteration
Have you ever spoken with a foreigner and tried to understand their language? Well, everyone notices that each human language has its own speaking and writing rules, sayings, idioms which it follows, and so on, mostly observed between two similar linguistic groups. Especially when a strictly literal translation is brought in, hilarity ensues.… [read more]