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


Aces Series: A primer
A look at the versions and patches for Aces Of The Pacific and Aces Over Europe. Patching strategies and available documents also covered.
17 hours ago11 min read
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Wing Commander I & II: Tinkering with Wing Commander
A guide to running Wing Commander and Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi with the WCAT Overhaul Mod.
Oct 2111 min read
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Wing Commander I & II: A primer
A look at the history of the first two Wing Commander games in the series.
Oct 1621 min read
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Elite Plus: Missions & Galaxy 9
A guide to the missions of Elite Plus and the patch needed to guarantee a visit to the ninth galaxy.
Oct 24 min read
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F-22 Lightning II: Striking twice
An updated guide to running the NovalLogic light flight sim, F-22 Lightning II in DOSBox Staging.
Sep 2711 min read
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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom: Vigilance in DOSBox and Windows
A guide to running Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom in DOSBox Staging and Win10.
Aug 2321 min read
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Jane's Fighter Anthology: The updated USNRaptor campaigns
A guide to the fan-made USNRaptor campaigns for Jane's Fighters Anthology.
Aug 65 min read
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iF-22: Infuriating F-22!
A guide to running iF-22 under Win10 with a working joystick.
Jul 3121 min read
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Rowan's Battle of Britain: Battling Windows compatibility
A guide to running Rowan's Battle of Britain under Windows 10. This is a World War II flight sim set in the British theater during the Battle of Britain timeframe.
Jul 1812 min read
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Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger: Big cats playing in a DOSBox & staring out of Windows
A guide to running DOS versions of Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger in DOSBox Staging. Converting DOS version to Windows compatible versions and optimising these to run natively in Win10.
Jul 522 min read
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Jane's Fighters Anthology: Going wide in Windows
Jane's Fighters Anthology has received a couple of new widescreen patches recently
Jun 284 min read
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1942 Pacific Air War: The staging is set
A guide to running the floppy, CD and digital releases of 1942 Pacific Air War and 1942 Pacific War Gold in the DOSBox Staging emulator.
Jun 2427 min read
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F/A-18E Super Hornet: A stinging setup journey
A guide to running the Digital Integration 1999 sim, F/A-18E Super Hornet in Windows 10.
May 213 min read
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F-16/iF-16 Fighting Falcon: Fighting with the Falcon
A guide to running the DOS version of F-16/iF-16 Fighting Falcon/iF-16 under DOSBox Staging or the Windows 95 3Dfx version natively under Windows 10.
Apr 1812 min read
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Discworld Noir: Playing it again, Sam
A guide to running the third Discworld game, Discworld Noir on a Win10 platform.
Apr 124 min read
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Eurofighter Typhoon: Storming in Windows
A guide to running the DID/Rage 2001 sim, Eurofighter Typhoon and Eurofighter Typhoon: Operation Icebreaker (2002),, natively in Windows 10.
Mar 3012 min read
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Megafortress part 1: Old Dog, new tricks
A guide to optimising a DOSBox install of Megafortress, the EB-52 Megafortress sim released by Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc. and Mindscape International Ltd. way back in 1991.
Mar 1610 min read
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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!
Mar 132 min read
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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
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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
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