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


Tech refresh 2026: F-22 Lightning II
Revised advice for running the NovaLogic 1996 DOS sim, F-22 Lightning II in DOSBox Staging.
Feb 211 min read


Tech refresh 2026: DOSBox best practice
This guide is a tech refresh guide covering some of the more earlier DOS sims. The techniques presented below have been found to improve the game performance, bringing it closer to a retro experience and seems to subjectively improve the 'feel' of the sim.
Feb 145 min read


Red sky at night, fortune hunters delight: Crimson Skies
A guide to running the alternate history flight sim, Crimson Skies in Win10.
Feb 88 min read


Jane's USAF: Unsurprising Simple And Fast
A guide to running Jane's Combat Simulations: USAF under WIn10. This guide is for the vanilla game including the official Thunderbirds and Version 1.02 patches.
Feb 112 min read


Jane's IAF: Instructions Avoiding Failure
Jane's Combat Simulations: IAF - Israeli Air Force another in the line of Jane's survey sims, whilst not as in-depth or detailed as Jane's F-15 or F-18, single aircraft 'study' sims, it provides less detail but a wider variety of aircraft types to fly with.
Jan 168 min read


Tech refresh 2026: Eagles everywhere
This article will be taking a look at a couple of F-15 Eagle sims, F-15 Strike Eagle III from Microprose and Jane's Combat Simulations: F-15 from Electronic Arts.
Jan 112 min read


Jane's F/A-18: Catching the Windows 10 wire
A guide to running the Jane's Combat Simulations sim from 2000, F/A-18 Simulator. This sim will run natively under Win10 using either Direct3D or Glide emulation.
Jan 49 min read


MiG Alley: Improving compatibility
This guide will attempt to improve Win10/11 compatibility using techniques that have proved successful with other sims.
Dec 30, 20252 min read


Jane's F-15 part 2: Missions, mods & utilities
A guide to the fan made mission, mods and utilities available to enhance your Jane's F-15 experience. There have been a large number of fan made missions developed by numerous creators, uploaded to websites and then lost when those websites were no longer available. There have been far fewer mods and utilities, but those that were developed suffered a similar fate.
Dec 18, 20255 min read


Jane's F-15 part 1: A strike on incompatibility!
A guide to running Jane's Combat Simulations: F-15 released in 1998 by Electronic Arts. This guide will be running the sim natively under Win10, considered in the past to be notoriously tricky, due to severe compatibility issues under later versions of Windows.
Dec 16, 20257 min read


Total Air War part 3: Windows 10 & Total Air War 2.0
The third and final guide in the Total Air War (TAW) series covers running TAW natively in Win10 with the Total Air War 2.0 mod.
Dec 13, 202513 min read


Total Air War part 2: PCem build
This second Total Air War (TAW) article, will be using PCem v17 to build a virtual machine that can be used to build a TAW release and to optionally play it as well.
Dec 9, 20257 min read


Total Air War part 1: Primer
A primer on the different releases and versions of the classic Digital Image Design (D.I.D.) F-22 sim from 1998, Total Air War (TAW) also known as F22 Total Air War.
Dec 7, 20257 min read


F22 Air Dominance Fighter part 4: Sounding better
A guide to fixing the sound issues affecting MIDI music, sound fx and speech.
Dec 6, 20253 min read


F22 Air Dominance Fighter part 3: Dominating in Win 10
A guide to running F22 Air Dominance Fighter under Win10.
Dec 5, 20259 min read


F22 Air Dominance Fighter part 2: PCem build
This is the second F22 Air Dominance Fighter (F22 ADF) article. This article will be using PCem v17 to build a virtual machine that can be used to build an F22 ADF release and to optionally play it as well.
Nov 30, 202514 min read


F22 Air Dominance Fighter part 1: Primer
A primer on the different releases and versions of the classic Digital Image Design (D.I.D.) F-22 sim from December 1997, F22 Air Dominance Fighter
Nov 28, 20257 min read


F-15 Strike Eagle III: Soaring with Staging
A guide to running the classic MicroProse, 1992 DOS sim, F-15 Strike Eagle III in DOSBox Staging.
Nov 16, 20258 min read


Super-VGA Harrier: Staging from a carrier
A guide to running the Domark, sim Super VGA (SVGA) Harrier in DOSBox Staging.
Nov 9, 20256 min read


MiG Alley: Skins & things
This is an update covering various things discovered or changes since the last MiG Alley article.
Nov 6, 202511 min read
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