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Retro PC gaming on Windows 10, technical aspects, flight sims and space sims a speciality
Falcon 4.0 Part 7: The SuperPak release
A guide to building a SuperPak release of Falcon 4.0. This release will be built using the final SuperPak, v4.2.
15 minutes ago6 min read
Falcon 4.0 part 6: The eFalcon release
A guide to building the eFalcon v1.10 release of Falcon 4.0.
4 days ago5 min read
Falcon 4.0 part 5: The Realism Patch release
A guide on creating a Falcon 4.0 Realism Patch v5.0 release. Realism Patch v5.0 was the last in the Realism Patch series.
Aug 143 min read
Falcon 4.0 part 4: Understanding the F4Patch utility
Time to take a look at the F4Patch utility.
Aug 126 min read
Falcon 4.0 part 3: The official and iBeta releases
This guide covers the building of an iBeta release and configuring of the officially patched (vanilla Falcon 4.0) or iBeta releases.
Aug 910 min read
Falcon 4.0 part 2: The official patched version
A guide to patching Falcon 4.0 with the last official patch.
Aug 93 min read
Falcon 4.0/Falcon 4.0: Allied Force part 1: A primer
This will be the first in a series of articles covering the 1998 MicroProse sim Falcon 4.0.
Aug 93 min read
Falcon Gold: DOSBox digital release
This is a guide to optimising a gog.com or Steam digital release of the classic Falcon 3.0 flight sim collection, Falcon Gold, within DOSBox Staging.
Jun 285 min read
Heroes of the 357th: DOSBox Staging
A guide to running the (maybe not so well known) DOS sim, Heroes of the 357th in DOSBox Staging.
Jun 204 min read
Strike Commander: DOSBox mercenary staging area
A guide to running the 1993, Origin Systems sim, Strike Commander in DOSBox Staging.
Jun 146 min read
Gliding with Gold & boxing Anthology
A guide to running Jane's Longbow Gold and Jane's Longbow Anthology with the Glide patch in the 86Box emulator.
May 269 min read
Amiga talons out: Falcon with WinUAE
A guide to running the Amiga version of the 1989, Spectrum Holobyte sim, Falcon (1.0) under the WinUAE emulator.
May 76 min read
EF2000 Reloaded & VirtualMIDISynth
A guide to using VirtualMIDISynth with EF2000 Reloaded.
May 32 min read
Chucking it in DOSBox: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
A guide to running the standard DOS and Gravis UltraSound (GUS) optimized versions of the 1991 Electronic Arts/Brent Iverson sim, 'Chuck Yeager's Air Combat' in DOSBox Staging.
May 29 min read
Air Power: Battle in DOSBox
A guide to running the Rowan 1995 steampunk sim, 'Air Power: Battle in the Skies' in DOSBox Staging.
Apr 287 min read
Jetfighter III: Tech refresh 2025
This guide covers running Jetfighter III in DOSBox Staging with 3DFX Glide and using VirtualMIDISynth with DOSBox-X.
Apr 254 min read
Falcon 3.0 Gold manuals: All present and correct!
A recent update on the availability of Falcon 3.0 Gold manuals.
Apr 212 min read
Bringing it all together with Jane's Fighters - Anthology
A guide to running Jane's Fighters Anthology in Windows 10 with DirectX wrappers and PCem emulation.
Apr 67 min read
Tech refresh 2025: MiG Alley
This is a tech refresh article describing additional testing since the original MiG Alley articles were published.
Apr 52 min read
A-10 Tank Killer v1.5 (Amiga) brings the 'brrrt' to WinUAE
This is a guide to running the Amiga version of the 1991 Dynamix sim, A-10 Tank Killer Version 1.5 under WinUAE emulation.
Mar 16 min read
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