Game Software Posts from the Old Blog

The following posts were made in the old Thingamablog version of this blog, the read more links will take you directly to them.

Fish Tycoon — A Fish Breeding Game

Posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 at 2:33 PM by Randall

I don’t list a lot of commercial software here on Software Gadgets, but every once in a while something really catches my attention. Fish Tycoon… [Read More]

Adventure Game Studio — Play and Design Adventure Games

Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 at 8:48 PM by Randall

They don’t make games like the old point and click Sierra adventure games of the early 1990s very often — at least not commercially. However,… [Read More]

Cry Havoc: Test of Faith — Computerized Wargame

Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 at 9:52 PM by Randall

It’s been a while since I reviewed a game. The gamers among my readers can probably tell I’m not a computer gamer. Cry Havoc:… [Read More]

Running Games on Windows Vista Beta 2

Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:38 PM by Randall

While I’m not enough of a gamer to care (and doubly so as I am not planning to move to Windows Vista until I have… [Read More]

Poke — Cheat In Almost Every Game Out There

Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 9:19 PM by Randall

I stumbled across a nifty little program today: Poke. It’s a fairly simple to use universial cheat program for single player Windows games. It… [Read More]

FightGear — Open Source Flight Simulator

Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 at 8:28 PM by Randall

I’ve crashed a large number of airplanes (and one space shuttle, but that’s another story) in my day. Fortunately, they were all simulated fights (and… [Read More]

DarkPlaces — Modern OpenGL Windows Version of Quake

Posted on Friday, April 07, 2006 at 9:54 PM by Randall

It’s Friday and that’s a good time for another game. I enjoyed the original Quake back in my DOS gaming days, but like many people,… [Read More]

DOSBox Updated Today — Version 0.65 DOS Emulator Released

Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 5:19 PM by Randall

I’ve reviewed DOSBox here before. DOSBox is an open source DOS machine emulator. It emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem, XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA and EGA/VGA/VESA… [Read More]

Cube — An Open Source First Person Shooter

Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 at 8:44 PM by Randall

It’s Friday and the weekend is almost upon us. Sounds like a great time for a game. First Person Shooters (FPS) have been a mainstay… [Read More]

Scorched 3D — Freeware Remake of Scorched Earth

Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 4:59 PM by Randall

I remember DOS. One of the good things about DOS was an addictive little shareware game called Scorched Earth. It was deceptively simple. It was… [Read More]

Food Force — A Hunger Fighting Simulation Game

Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 at 10:00 PM by Randall

I love simulation games. Actually, old simulation games as I pick up most of my games years after they come out from the $5 bin… [Read More]

Wazzal - A Free Space Privateer Game

Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 10:13 PM by Randall

The Sun is about to explode! Never fear, some kind — but obviously greedy — aliens will evacuate anyone who has enough money. The problem,… [Read More]

DOSBox — A DOS Emulator Designed For Old DOS Games

Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 10:11 PM by Randall

I’m not a big computer gamer. I usually buy my computer games out of the cheap bin at Big Lots years after they came out… [Read More]

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