First of all sorry for going literally five years without a single update on the site. After much deliberation we have decided that Play-Old-PC-Games is not done yet, and we will be rolling out a re-branding and upgrade of the site in cooperation with a new partner. The first phase of the process is complete […]
Our friends over at GoG.com are having another awesome sale on their lovely DRM Free games! You can grab yourself a whole load of classic, modern and indie titles at reduced prices. Best of all, you can get the classic action adventure title Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen’s Odyssey) completely free. Remember, all GoG.com games
Thanks to the incredible efforts of PC retrogaming hero Dege, another classic PC title is now playable on your modern PC. The previously unplayable Japanese RPG “Breath of Fire IV” by Capcom now works perfectly on modern versions of Windows. This is thanks to dgVoodoo2 and a special, custom written patch, also provided by Dege.
While it’s not perfect, the Xbox 360 controller and Microsoft’s Xinput API did make using controllers on Windows PCs a lot less painful. By introducing a high quality standard controller, most gamers could simply plug and play, rather than having to go through the bind of re-binding the controls to suit the game and controller
American McGee’s Alice behaves very curiously when installed on a Windows 10 machine. When you try to install it, the games installer seems to skip over several files during the installation process. We suspect this issue is to do with the games outdated copy protection, though we’ve never seen a title behave quite like this
Twitch streaming is super popular, but as you may have noticed, the modern recording/screen casting tools often don’t work with older games. I’ve just posted a video to my Youtube channel that shows how you can harness the power of dgVoodoo2, NVIDIA Shadowplay and/or Evolve to make your old games compatible with Twitch streaming. Using
There are a number of very useful compatibility tools for the PC that help all manner of older games run better, but the most significant tool to arrive in recent years is dgVoodoo2. This software is a legacy DirectX and Voodoo Glide to DirectX 11 wrapper. What that means is, use it with any old
First of all, sorry for not posting anything here for a few months, as I explained in an earlier post, I needed to work on my Windows 10 tutorials over on Top-Windows-Tutorials.com, as I had pre-orders for them. The good news is though that I got Windows 10 installed on my main gaming rig and
Windows 10 is on its way, due to be released to the public at the end of next month. Unfortunately that means I won’t have time to test any games for a while, as I have to get all new training materials and books etc ready for Top-Windows-Tutorials.com. Once that’s out of the way though
dgVoodoo 2 is a 3DFX Glide and DirectX 1 to 7 wrapper that’s been turning heads in the PC retrogaming community with its excellent performance and great compatibility. As long as you have a PC that’s capable of running Direct3D 11 software, you can try this excellent wrapper software with your legacy DirectX and 3DFX
