top of page

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

Tales from DarkenedRoom

Wing Commander III: Heart of the TIger

Wing Commander III: Heart of the TIger

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.

9 minutes ago22 min read

Jane's Fighters Anthology: Going wide in Windows

Jane's Fighters Anthology: Going wide in Windows

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

1942: The Pacific Air War

1942: The Pacific Air War

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 2428 min read

FEATURED POST

TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Wing Commander III: Heart of the TIger

Wing Commander III: Heart of the TIger

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.

9 minutes ago22 min read

Jane's Fighters Anthology: Going wide in Windows

Jane's Fighters Anthology: Going wide in Windows

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

1942: The Pacific Air War

1942: The Pacific Air War

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 2428 min read

DOSBox MIDI devices

DOSBox MIDI devices

DOSBox Staging and MIDI

Taking another look at DOSBox MIDI both built-in and external synths in Win10/11.

Jun 203 min read

Frontier: Elite II

Frontier: Elite II

Frontier: Elite 2: Pushing back the staging frontiers

A guide to running the classic space sim Frontier Elite II on modern hardware with DOSBox Staging and natively in Win10.

May 319 min read

Flight of the Intruder

Flight of the Intruder

Flight of the Intruder: Intruding into Staging

A guide to running the Rowen & Spectrum Holobyte developed, 1990 sim, Flight of the Intruder in DOSBox Staging.

May 246 min read

DOS sims

DOS sims

Tech refresh 2026: Successful (DOSBox Staging) candidate part 2 (G-Z)

This is a guide updating the various DOSBox configs produced for many of the guides, to the latest DOSBox Staging v0.83.0 release candidate 1, covering games G to Z.

May 195 min read

ABOUT ME

Fighter pilot pixel art

I'm a java developer to make ends meet but once work is done I'm a sim gamer with an interest in the technical aspects of setting stuff up.

SUBSCRIBE

MY PICK
OF THE MONTH

Glide wrappers

If you're unsure about Glide wrappers, this guide may help answer your questions.

Can different Glide wrappers coexist together?

How do you use one Glide wrapper instead of the other?

And how to use them with games and DOSBox-X?

Contact

bottom of page