Todd Boss
The Official End of the Tecmo Super Bowl Era
Jeff Feagles, the last NFL player featured in Tecmo Super Bowl, hangs up his cleats…
Super Mario Galaxy 2 hits 5/23: Yoshi! Drills! 2D gameplay!
Check out the trailer…it looks like they managed to take the best parts of Super Mario Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros. Wii (minus the multiplayer) and combine them into one solid new title.
Is your PC obsolete? OnLive brings the cloud to PC gaming
Thin client + 5Mb Internet connection = no more $1500+ “gamer rigs?” For now, it’s just a demo, but I’ve been hearing this was coming for a few months now. The best part of the whole thing is that if this takes off, one of the main reasons home users still use Windows will be GONE.
JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator
Wow. This guy wrote a NES emulator in, get this, Javascript. Yes, Javascript. You’re going to want to give this a try using Chrome, though…the JS engines in other browsers will only give you about 5 frames per second (compared to 50+ using Chrome!).
How to get Transport Tycoon Deluxe to Run in Windows 7
Update 16 FEB 2010: I’ve noticed that this post ranks very highly on Google for “Transport Tycoon Deluxe Windows 7” so I decided to write a new post detailing how I actually play Transport Tycoon these days: with the excellent open-source remake OpenTTD, which runs on Windows and Linux. My new post is available here.
If you’re trying to run the classic simulation game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe” in Windows 7, you may get an error upon startup when the game can’t find dplay.dll. Here’s what you need to do:
- Go to
C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-directx-directplay4_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7100.0_none_e80363be14f8ec68(substitute your Windows installation path for C:\Windows if necessary). - Copy
dplayx.dllto your Transport Tycoon installation folder. - Rename the new copy of the file to
dplay.dll.
How to Automount a drive in DOSBOX
Dosbox is a DOS emulator that lets you play your old games on Linux, Windows, Mac, etc. This tutorial shows you how to auto-mount your DOS folder so that it’s ready to go each time you fire it up.