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Relive past glory with a few retro gaming hacks

Video game players, no matter how long they have been playing, have games in their past that invoke pleasant feelings of nostalgia. Combine those feelings with a hacker's mentality and you'll find people who have figured out how to get old games to play on newer machines. In this chapter...

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Download resources 2005-12-16

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Relive past glory with a few retro gaming hacks

Sometimes, as a gamer, you just want to play a game from your distant past. This book chapter from Retro Gaming Hacks: Tips & Tools for Playing the Classics explains how to do it. Video game players, no matter how long they have been playing, have games...

Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Tool, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology

Book chapters 2005-12-16

The Commodore returns--as a gaming PC!

ROFLHopefully they come up with something unique but not so retro to be useless... Good news post

Tags: binarypc, game, games, gaming, hardware, pc

Discussion threads 2007-03-07

Retro (bin)

Retro is an immersive game that blends modern graphics and sound effects with old-fashioned fun and playability. It features scrolling, two-player simultaneous play, random level generation, and high-quality stereo sounds and music. Retro limits you to the first three levels.

Tags: Stereo, Retro, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-02-02

Crush and impress your friends with these Halo 2 hacks

Even after you finish a game like Halo 2, there is always more to do—if you know how. Halo 2 is a very popular game, played through to the end by many gamers, but that doesn't mean they have seen all there is to see. With some...

Tags: Halo 2, O'Reilly Media Inc., Games, Productivity, Personal Technology

Book chapters 2005-10-12

PixelShips Retro (exe)

PixelShips Retro is a space shooter designed to look and feel like an old 1980's arcade game, with many improvements. There are 160 different PixelShips you can collect as you pilot them through 50 randomly generated maps. Features include a real-time game engine, 13 original music tracks, 5 skill levels,...

Tags: PixelShips Retro, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-10-06

Never lose the evidence of your perfect score again with this PSP hack

This chapter excerpt from PSP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Gaming and Entertainment Handheld shows you how to transfer your saved PSP games to another device for the sake of posterity. Most hard-core game players know that having multiple file saves can be the key...

Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Sony PlayStation Portable, Games, Personal Technology

Book chapters 2006-02-14

80's Retro Screensaver (exe)

The 80's was a memorable decade. The 80' Retro screensaver will play the best 80's music on your computer while animating some 80's retro graphics on your desktop. The screensaver will also list several links about the nostalgic decade via config settings.

Tags: Screensaver, Productivity

Software downloads 2006-11-30

Retro Records (exe)

Retro Records shut its doors long ago, but your uncle left you its entire stock of record albums. There's thousands of great records, but they are in total disarray. Can you collect enough albums so that Retro Records can once again open to the public. Collect classic jazz, rock, hip...

Tags: Album, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2007-05-23

All about gaming

Hi to all experts out there, I have some doubts that I hope any help & advise will be valuable to me. I am helping my nephew on his gaming needs. What does it takes to built a robust gaming PC? Is AMD or Intel PC most prefer for gaming?...

Tags: off-topic, gaming, acl33d@..., processor, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., game, mouse, PC

Discussion threads 2006-11-13

Toolbar Gaming TM (exe)

Toolbar Gaming has launch a complete new generation of toolbar. A toolbar entirely dedicated to players in the gaming online worldtoolbar Gaming will offer the most comprehensive selections of games while giving you objective reviews. You can finally count on someone to give you a quality online gaming experience.

Tags: Toolbar, Toolbar Gaming, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-10-05

Retro Game Pack (exe)

The Retro Game Pack is a collection of 9 classic games from the early days of Dataware. The games included in the complete version of the Retro Game Pack are Ant Attack, Find the Flag, Fire Fighter, Letter Drop, Letter Drop 2, Sliding Puzzle, Stamp Pad, Supernova, and the original...

Tags: Retro Game Pack, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-11-12

Vade Retro Antispam (EXE)

Fed-up of unwanted e-mail. Get this advanced inbox filter Vade Retro antispam for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express filters up to 99% of spam, scam, phishing, spreading virus and bounce messages. The download of Vade Retro anti-spam toolbar is free and without obligation. The installation only takes a few seconds,...

Tags: Goto, Microsoft Outlook, Phishing, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Office, Viruses And Worms, Office Suites, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Management, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2005-12-12

Crush and impress your friends with these Halo 2 hacks

Halo 2 is a very popular game, played through to the end by many gamers, but that doesn't mean they have seen all there is to see. With some advanced techniques and some specialized knowledge, you can open up new content and develop new skills that will keep you gaming...

Tags: knowledge, hack, O'Reilly Media Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Halo 2, game, gamer, Web, Web site, Halo 2 Hacks, technique, crush

Download resources 2005-10-12

SketchFighter (dmg)

SketchFighter 4000 Alpha redefines "retro" by bringing together the imaginative pen and paper sketches from your youth with a killer resolution independent OpenGL graphics engine. SketchFighter also boasts a unique synthesis of exploration and action game play, which has you alternately blasting cute little lady bugs into oblivion and then...

Tags: SketchFighter 4000 Alpha, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-12

Digital Retro Clock (gg)

Digital retro style clock for your sidebar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Release, Version, Benjamin Schirmer

Software downloads 2007-12-07

RetroQ (exe)

Retro Q is all about Quirky retro style graphics. Some sounds can occur during the game. Once you get the hang of it, this game will turn you into a typing frenzic. Some bad spirit cubes are coming to get you, and you need to shoot your way out. They...

Tags: Retro Q, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-12-05

Hack your way to a faster, stronger, better Yahoo!

Get more out of Yahoo! with these three hacks. Yahoo! is one of the most popular and most feature-rich sites on the Web. But, as the hacks in this download show, even the most feature-laden sites can be enhanced with a few well conceived alternations. The three...

Tags: Web, Yahoo! Inc., O'Reilly Media Inc., Channel Management, Productivity, Marketing

Book chapters 2006-01-05

Write your own custom Snort rules for tighter security

Snort is a favorite open source application in use in many IT departments because it offers an inexpensive and effective way to provide intrusion detection capability on a network segment. Now, with this sample hack from the O'Reilly book Network Security Hacks, you can learn how to make Snort even...

Tags: Snort, Network, O'Reilly Media Inc., Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Book chapters 2005-03-10

Retro Sci-Fi Screensaver (exe)

Retro Sci-Fi Screensaver - Turn your computer into a busy-looking one with meaningless animated displays from old sci-fi movies. Retro Sci-Fi Screensaver transforms your powerful, expensive computer into one of those busy-looking, meaningless animated displays you see in old sci-fi movies and TV shows. Convince your friends that you control...

Tags: Screensaver, Computer, Productivity, Networking

Software downloads 2007-12-05