I had some ATtiny85 chips lying around my desk. These 8-pin microcontrollers are popular for small projects: 8KB of flash, 6 GPIO pins, and enough grunt to run simple games....
Back in college, I built a Windows music player called Tejash Player using C and the Win32 API. It worked well enough to get published on Softpedia, but the code...
I had some Attiny85 chips lying around my desk and a few free days, so I went looking for projects. I found that Daniel Champagne had already created several games...
If you’ve tried scrolling text over an image in a Win32 application, you’ve probably seen flickering. The text doesn’t draw cleanly over the background. This happens because Windows repaints the...
Reverse engineering is taking apart software to understand how it works. Security researchers use it to analyze malware. Testers use it for black-box security analysis. Sometimes you just want to...
Windows Vista introduced the Desktop Window Manager (DWM), which uses hardware acceleration for the UI and enables the Aero glass effects. Each program writes to its own buffer, and DWM...
