A big thank you to user Philscomputerlab on the Vogons.org forums for bringing a couple of great Far Cry mods/patches to our attention. We’ve now revised our Far Cry guide to take these into account. The 1.6 community patch is a must-have for anyone playing the game today, particularly the GoG.com or Steam versions as […]
Thanks to those awesome folks at GoG.com, you can now get a fully updated, DRM free version of X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter to play on your modern PC! Back in June 2013 we produced an updated installer for those of you lucky enough to still have a copy of your original CD-ROM, but now anyone
Fans of classic Sega games rejoice! Thanks to the awesome new WineD3D DirectX to OpenGL wrapper software from dosse91, we’ve been able to get classic rail-shooter Panzer Dragoon to work on Windows 8! Previously only compatible with Windows 7 and earlier, this title is now fully playable on the latest versions of Windows. This is
Just wanted to let you all know our friends over at GoG.com are having a sale at the moment. This is a perfect chance for you to snag some games, old or new, at bargain prices. What’s more, you can get Mount and Blade completely free, no strings attached, so what are you waiting for?
If you’ve ever played old games with CD audio soundtracks, you’ve probably noticed that the music in these games doesn’t loop correctly. Exactly why this happens is unclear, but it seems to be due to some changes Microsoft made to the The Media Control Interface (MCI) components in Windows Vista and later. To help with
I have been spending some time with the excellent PC port of Silent Hill 2 recently. Getting this classic game running was one of the challenges that inspired me to create this website in the first place. Digging a little deeper into the game we discovered that it does in fact have a full surround
Those old Cyberflix adventure games still have quite the cult following. Titanic and Dust are two games we get asked about very frequently. Thanks to our new DOSBox and Windows 3.1 tutorials, it’s now possible to enjoy DUST – A Tale of the Wired West in Windows 7 or Windows 8. Possible if you can
We’ve added another tutorial to our DOSBox tutorials section, this time explaining how you can run Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. While Windows 3.1 wasn’t known as a great gaming OS, there are a number of games that will only run correctly when run on this ancient version of the OS, including a couple that our
Just to let you all know we’ve added a new DOSBox tutorial, this one focuses on creating custom configuration files for those games that need a slightly different configuration from the norm. You can view it by clicking here. A video tutorial as well as a guide to getting Windows 3.1 running in DOSBox is
We’ve just completed some upgrades to the site, as well as moving to the latest WordPress we also updated the sites theme files. Unfortunately, there are a number of bugs in the premium “Orizon” theme we’re using which were affecting pages in Internet Explorer and Chrome particularly. Luckily the bugs were fairly easy to fix
