The CRPG Book Project – mirror
The CRPG Book Project is a PDF Book of the history of RPGs on the PC ! The Book is CC-BY-NC 4.0 licensed and may therefore be distributed freely. Official… Read more »
Lazy Dos Menu to quickstart games with a simple batchfile
I’m too lazy to type in the dos commands to navigate to a game and then dir /p it to find out what the .exe is called to start the… Read more »
DOS and early Windows 2D card benchmark results
I was using a “last generation” 486 Mainboard with 3 PCI and 4 ISA slots to bench. The cpu shouldn’t be a bottleneck or slow down the benchmarks, therefore an… Read more »
Soundcard-Test DOS startup files
This is an example autoexec.bat that I use to test various soundcards. Each menu loads it’s drivers for the corresponding soundcard. Note that the names like :AWE32 must have an… Read more »
Microsoft Proofing Tools Kit compilation 2016 – Unattented install with only selected languages
So this might be the first and only list on the whole web…. The 2016 version of the proofing tools kit will install every language it includes, if you don’t… Read more »
How to connect an Atari 2600 to a TV using the RF / Antenna cable
Many people have problem finding the correct channel for an old Atari2600, here’s a tutorial how to find the channel manually. Useful information first: The Atari 2600 VCS needs at… Read more »
Install or deploy any Java 8 with autoupdate off using MSI silent installer
Java is a pain in the *%% and so is the fact that Oracle only provides .EXE installers for Windows anymore. So first, we need to get the .MSI file… Read more »
Gameboy Games Battery replacement how2
Some Gameboy games came out with a save-game function, but at the time the save-games were often not written into a RAM chip, which saved the file forever, but into… Read more »
Avoid automatic restart for scheduled Windows 10 updates
The new update functions of Windows 10 are really annoying. No more “install updates on shutdown”, badly configurable update settings… How to avoid an automatic restart of your PC after… Read more »
The Mega Man 2 NES Casemod by Jigo.lu
It’s been years that I’ve thought of doing a Mega Man themed mod on one of my NES consoles and some time later Platinumfunghi released his brilliant Mega Man 2… Read more »