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How PC Software Collections Introduced a Generation to Canasta
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Bundled card-game software like Hoyle Card Games introduced a whole generation to canasta. Here's how those CD collections kept the game alive.
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How Digital Checkers Grew From DOS Shareware to Eleven Online Variants
Thursday, July 23, 2026
From Arthur Samuel's 1962 IBM checkers AI to eleven online rulesets, here's how digital checkers grew from shareware curiosity to a global game family.
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How Tic Tac Toe Became One of the First Games Computers Learned to Play
Monday, July 20, 2026
How a 1952 Cambridge experiment turned tic tac toe into the world's first graphical computer game and a cornerstone of early AI research.
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The Card Game That Shipped With Every Windows PC and Still Holds up
Friday, July 17, 2026
Microsoft bundled Solitaire with Windows 3.0 to teach mouse skills, and it became the world's most-played game. Here's how, and what to play next.
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What are Magnet Links?
Thursday, June 22, 2017
You’ll notice green ‘magnet link‘ buttons under the red ones. These offer a second method of downloading games. You’ll need a torrent client like uTorrent to use them. Once you download something you could keep it around so other people can download it as well. In fact a lot of people might want to do […]
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Guide on Installing DOS Games from Virtual Discs
Monday, March 27, 2017
This is a quick guide on installing DOS games from virtual discs such as BIN, IMG, ISO, etc. This will hopefully help you out if you’re trying to play a DOS game off a CD image and get the common ‘please insert disc’ error message.
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How To Install Custom Windows XP Themes
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Learn How To: Enable Third-Party Theme Support on Windows XP Change your Windows XP Theme, Sounds, Cursor and Fonts This tutorial will show you how to download, install and use custom Windows XP Themes – essentially you will learn to take that boring old XP interface and give it an exciting makeover. Some programs like […]
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How To Connect Multiple Joysticks To One PC
Saturday, May 30, 2015
This tutorial will show you how to attach more than one joystick to a single PC and use both of them when playing games. This is useful because one can convert your extra joystick to work as a rudder control, or throttle, or many other things – so it’s basically a cheap workaround if you can’t get proper rudder pedals!
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How to Run DOS Games in DosBox
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
More Dos games will be featured on this site in the coming months, and it’s only fair that I write up some clear tips on how to play these on modern computers. DosBox is everyone’s favorite MSDOS emulator, and learning how to use it takes but a few minutes.
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How to Mount CD Images in DosBox
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Here we’ll learn how to use DosBox to mount MSDOS game CDs and actually install and play the game. We’ll assume you already have a game disc image (.ISO, .BIN, .NRG, etc.) on your hard drive, and you know how to mount those disc using programs like Power ISO, Deamon Tools, Alcohol 120%, etc. 1. […]
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