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


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.
3 days ago2 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


F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 & Black Knight: Marine Strike Fighter: A PixelWings update
This article covers some of the recently released PixelWings mods for the Microprose sim, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 and Black Knight: Marine Strike Fighter from SE Software.
Nov 2, 20253 min read


Fleet Defender: Defending in DOSBox
A guide to running the MicroProse 1994 sim, Fleet Defender in DOSBox Staging.
Oct 21, 202521 min read


Falcon 4.0 part 12: Falcon BMS and EF2000 RETRO
This is the last of the releases to be covered, Falcon BMS and EF2000 RETRO.
Oct 12, 20255 min read


Falcon 4.0 part 11: The (unlucky) OpenFalcon release
This guide will covers the history, the patches and how to build the release.
Oct 3, 20256 min read


Falcon 4.0 part 10: The FreeFalcon release
A guide on building the FreeFalcon release of Falcon 4.0. This build will use the final version of FreeFalcon, FreeFalcon 6 rev d.
Sep 17, 20255 min read
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