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


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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Myst IV: Revolution
A quick guide on the Myst IV: Revelation utility Revolution.
Nov 9, 20253 min read
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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
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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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Fleet Defender: Defending in DOSBox
A guide to running the MicroProse 1994 sim, Fleet Defender in DOSBox Staging.
Oct 22, 202521 min read
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Falcon 4.0 part 11: The (unlucky) OpenFalcon release
This guide will covers the history, the patches and how to build the release.
Oct 4, 20256 min read
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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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Falcon 4.0 part 9: The SuperPak BMS releases (DRAFT)
This is a guide on building and running the SuperPak 4/(early) BMS release of Falcon 4.0.
Sep 13, 202511 min read
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Falcon 4.0: Allied Force part 3: Skunkworks release
A guide to building the Skunkworks release of Falcon 4.0: Allied Force and the configuration steps to run it under Win10.
Sep 12, 20252 min read
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Falcon 4.0: Allied Force part 2: Official release
A guide to building the last officially patched release of Falcon 4.0: Allied Force.
Sep 8, 20255 min read
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