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Retro PC gaming on Windows 10, technical aspects, flight sims and space sims a speciality


LHX: Attack Chopper: Successfully experimenting in Staging
A guide to running LHX: Attack Chopper in DOSBox Staging.
17 hours ago7 min read
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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom: Vigilance in DOSBox and Windows
A guide to running Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom in DOSBox Staging and Win10.
5 days ago21 min read
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Jane's Fighter Anthology: The USNRaptor campaigns
A guide to the fan-made USNRaptor campaigns for Jane's Fighters Anthology.
Aug 65 min read
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iF-22: Infuriating F-22!
A guide to running iF-22 under Win10 with a working joystick.
Jul 3121 min read
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Rowan's Battle of Britain: Battling Windows compatibility
A guide to running Rowan's Battle of Britain under Windows 10. This is a World War II flight sim set in the British theater during the Battle of Britain timeframe.
Jul 1812 min read
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ATAC: The secret war within DOSBox
A guide to running ATAC: The Secret War Against Drugs in DOSBox Staging. Also known as Advanced Tactical Air Command, ATAC pits you against Colombian drug barons. Your job is conduct a strategic battle plan against the cartels utilising a fleet of F-22 Raptors and AH-64 Longbow attack helicopters.
Jul 114 min read
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Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger: Big cats playing in a DOSBox & staring out of Windows
A guide to running DOS versions of Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger in DOSBox Staging. Converting DOS version to Windows compatible versions and optimising these to run natively in Win10.
Jul 522 min read
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Jane's Fighters Anthology: Going wide in Windows
Jane's Fighters Anthology has received a couple of new widescreen patches recently
Jun 284 min read
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1942 Pacific Air War: The staging is set
A guide to running the floppy, CD and digital releases of 1942 Pacific Air War and 1942 Pacific War Gold in the DOSBox Staging emulator.
Jun 2428 min read
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DOSBox Staging and MIDI
Taking another look at DOSBox MIDI both built-in and external synths in Win10/11.
Jun 203 min read
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Frontier: Elite 2: Pushing back the staging frontiers
A guide to running the classic space sim Frontier Elite II on modern hardware with DOSBox Staging and natively in Win10.
May 319 min read
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Flight of the Intruder: Intruding into Staging
A guide to running the Rowen & Spectrum Holobyte developed, 1990 sim, Flight of the Intruder in DOSBox Staging.
May 246 min read
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Tech refresh 2026: Successful (DOSBox Staging) candidate part 2 (G-Z)
This is a guide updating the various DOSBox configs produced for many of the guides, to the latest DOSBox Staging v0.83.0 release candidate 1, covering games G to Z.
May 195 min read
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Tech refresh 2026: Successful (DOSBox Staging) candidate part 1 (0-F)
This is a guide updating the various DOSBox configs produced for many of the guides, to the latest DOSBox Staging v0.83.0 release candidate 1. This version is a huge change over previous versions.
May 165 min read
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F/A-18E Super Hornet: A stinging setup journey
A guide to running the Digital Integration 1999 sim, F/A-18E Super Hornet in Windows 10.
May 213 min read
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Controllers and retro sims part 10: vJoy/Joystick Gremlin/HidHide command line options
A guide to configuration, enabling and disabling the vJoy, Joystick Gremlin and HidHide utilities with the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell command lines.
Apr 264 min read
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Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer 2: Boxing clever to defeat the dead zone
A guide to running Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer 2. Developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra in 1996.
Apr 269 min read
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F-16/iF-16 Fighting Falcon: Fighting with the Falcon
A guide to running the DOS version of F-16/iF-16 Fighting Falcon/iF-16 under DOSBox Staging or the Windows 95 3Dfx version natively under Windows 10.
Apr 1812 min read
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Discworld Noir: Playing it again, Sam
A guide to running the third Discworld game, Discworld Noir on a Win10 platform.
Apr 124 min read
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F22 Air Dominance Fighter (2026 edition): Font of sound knowledge
This article covers adding enhanced MIDI components to the 2026 edition of F22 Air Dominance Fighter. We'll start with a quick history, explain what it means for ADF and then move on to installing some recommended apps to restore missing MIDI features.
Apr 44 min read
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