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


Tech refresh 2026: Harrier Jump Jet
The 1992 MicroProse Harrier sim, Harrier Jump Jet has received a new quality of life patch to remove the manual check from patched versions v2.40 and v2.41, courtesy of ZakMcKrack3n!
3 days ago2 min read


A-10 Cuba! No risk of a fubar!
A guide to running the Parsoft developed Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II sim, A-10 Cuba!, initially released in 1996 and published by Activision. The sim features a comprehensive physics based flight model, damage model and detailed cockpit at the time of release.
Mar 89 min read


MiG-29 Fulcrum: Some Russian Nova Logic
A guide to running the NovaLogic 1998 sim, MiG-29 Fulcrum. This guide will be running the sim natively under Win10
Mar 27 min read


Flight Unlimited: Issues eliminated
A guide to running the DOS version of Flight Unlimited in DOSBox Staging and the Windows 95 version in WIndows 10. Flight Unlimited the 1995 aerobatic flight sim developed and published by Looking Glass.
Feb 2710 min read


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


688 Attack Sub: Not running silent
A guide to running the classic Electronic Arts sub sim, 688 Attack Sub in DOSBox Staging.
Jan 186 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


KA-52 Team Alligator: Taking another bite
In a previous guide, the game could be run within Win10. However it ran ok but it didn't run well. This guide will try different techniques to try and improve the Win10 compatibility.
Dec 26, 20252 min read


Hind & Seek: Finding a Hind setup
This is a guide to running the 1996 Digital Integration (DI) sim Hind (also called HIИD or Hind: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation) in DOSBox Staging or WIn10.
Dec 25, 202514 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


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
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