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


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
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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 178 min read
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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
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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
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Jane's F-15 part 3: Adding head tracking
This guide will be taking a look at the various options available to enable head tracking in Jane's F-15.
Dec 22, 20253 min read
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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
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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
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Jane's Longbow 2/Anthology: Rocketing to success
A discussion on optimising the Jane's Longbow 2/Anthology setup to maximise rocket effectiveness.and suggestions for effective use in-game.
Jun 29, 20253 min read
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Jane's Longbow 2/Anthology: Rocketing into PCem
A guide to running Jane's Longbow 2 and Jane's Longbow Anthology under PCem emulation.
Jun 8, 202513 min read
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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 26, 20259 min read
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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 6, 20258 min read
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Tech refresh 2025: Jane's AH-64D Longbow
This is a tech refresh article describing revised DOSBox configurations for the DOS versions and additional testing of the Glide versions si
Dec 28, 20243 min read
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Testing Jane's Longbow
A testing guide for the various releases of Jane's Longbow.
Sep 27, 20244 min read
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The difficult child: Running Jane's AH-64D Longbow (3dfx/Glide) in Windows 10
How to run the Windows 3dfx/Glide versions of Longbow Gold and Longbow Anthology natively in Windows 10.
Sep 22, 20248 min read
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Running Jane's AH-64D Longbow (Windows) in PCem
How to run the non-Glide Windows versions of Longbow Gold and Longbow Anthology in Windows 98 using the PCem emulator.
Sep 20, 20243 min read
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Running Jane's AH-64D Longbow (DOS) in DOSBox Staging
How to run the DOS versions of Longbow, Longbow & Flash Point Korea, Longbow Gold and Longbow Anthology in DOSBox Staging.
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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Jane's AH-64D Longbow: A version retrospective & primer
This is a version retrospective looking back at all the versions of Jane's AH-64D Longbow.
Sep 14, 20247 min read
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