Tag: games

DirectX 9.c and 10.1 Download (August 2008)

August 11, 2008 by Jason

New downloads are available for a range of operating systems, including Vista Service Pack 1 and XP Service Pack 3. The August 2008 Development Kit and End-User Runtime went live on the Center this past week. In addition to the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Vista RTM, SP1, as well as XP SP2 and SP3, x86 and x64 versions of End-User Runtime and Available (August 2008) have also been delivered for 2000, Server 2003, and Server 2008.

“The End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of   the core technology that drives high speed and on the PC. is a group of technologies designed to make -based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. includes and updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the APIs,” revealed in the description of the End-User Runtime . Read More»

Top Free and Open Source Apps for Mac Users

August 07, 2008 by Jason

A couple of days ago, I met an old friend of mine who just got his hands on a brand new and, after about half an hour of showing the ins and outs of the machine, he asked me why the community has so few . If he had known that I would start writing down every piece of free and/or capable of running on a and keep talking about them for a whole hour, I think he wouldn’t have asked me that question in a million years.

To be fair, I kind of slowed down about 30 minutes after I started writing the list but still got pretty far to cover two pages. Those were the apps that I could remember at the moment, while still trying to write down other apps in no particular order.

The exact same question seems to haunt a lot of out there and thus, I decided to put up a list of the most important I would install on my own after performing a clean install.

Because I do want to give the list some type of order, I have put the apps in six categories, again, in no particular order: , network, audio/video, graphics, , editors and miscellaneous. The content in the first five categories is pretty obvious. In the sixth, I have included the that wouldn’t fit in any of the first categories. Read More»

Block any website on your computer with Any weblock

May 27, 2008 by Jason

users in India is growing at a very fast rate with easy and cheap broadband services provided anywhere by mtnl or bsnl and other companies like airtel ,sify broadband etc.

With the increasing use of among the young children it becomes very crucial to those sites like which are not healthy for young children’s ( online and chatrooms) etc.

Solution to the problem is to the websites with the help of blocking like Any

Any - It is a free to access to any on your . Read More»

DirectX 10 for Windows XP - 2008

January 01, 2008 by Jason

10 is the latest version of the suite of programming interfaces that has built exclusively into its latest operating system, Vista. Gaming enthusiasts will only be able to access 10 via a combination of one of the latest video cards and one of the editions of Vista. These libraries allow the use of 10 on platforms other than Vista, and increase compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where isnt capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to the latest , revealed Cody Brocious, Lead Engineer on the Alky Project. Read More»

How to Play Half-Life 2 on Ubuntu

December 25, 2007 by Jason

Who says you can’t on Linux? Of course you can! Well… not all of them, but at least some of the nicer ones, such as , Counter Strike or Unreal Tournament. Today’s guide will teach you, step-by-step, how to install and , : Episode One, : Episode Two, and (all part of the grandiose ) on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon). I have to admit that I played and finished on a Windows PC, a few years ago (in late 2004) when I hadn’t even heard about , and I simply loved it. Now I want to finish Episode One and Two, on ! Without any further introduction, here’s what you need to get started: Read More»

Vista Not Playing Nice with Gamers

February 13, 2007 by Jason

Vista’s powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it’s engendering complaints from hardcore gamers…

Vista’s powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it’s engendering complaints from a key of potential early adopters: hardcore gamers.

A small but significant number of written for XP either or along slowly on Vista, according to numerous complaints by enthusiasts in online forums.
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Will Vista Run Your Current Games?

February 08, 2007 by Jason

Those guys at continue to pump out some really good stuff lately, today’s link, is an article where they tested if Vista would run his current crop of . All he did was he installed Vista, installed all the latest updates and drivers, and he changed the resolution and the background image, no special was applied, and , video card vendors have been updating their Vista drivers recently, so this will be better than it would have been a few weeks ago.

has been the best OS for gamers for years, and Vista takes that to the next level. That’s all well and good for made with Vista in mind, but what about your existing ? Last May, when Vista was at the Beta 2 milestone, I wrote a feature in which I installed around 15 on the unfinished OS, describing how well each one worked. Now that Vista is “done” (inasmuch as any OS is ever actually finished), it’s time to do it again. This time, I’m going to use the final Vista release, a DX10 video card (not that it really matters with no DX10 ), and all the drivers available upon Vista’s launch. I’ll also take a look at a lot more , around 25.
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Play MS-DOS Games on Vista

February 06, 2007 by Jason

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If you try to run an old on Vista, you’ll probably get an error “This system does not fullscreen mode.” Fortunately, this isn’t a dead end. a copy of DOSBox, the greatest MS- emulator for any platform (, , , and more), and try running your under . Not only will you get for old-school graphics like CGA and EGA, you can even run it in a window!