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Have you ever come across your old CDs of Dungeon Keeper , Diablo or Starcraft and wonder how much fun it would be to play them again? These games, which took away countless hours of our time and many sleepless nights with friends and family. Only when you try to install them on your laptop running Windows 10, do you realize that many of them no longer work! Fret not, dear friend, as you will shortly be playing your favorite game on Windows 10 if you follow the instructions given below. Please note that this article is about running 32-bit games on Windows 10, and NOT 16-bit games or DOS games. To play a 16-bit game, you would need another computer running an older OS like Windows 95 or 98, or a virtual machine on your computer. Playing DOS games on Windows 10 is much easier (you just need an app called DOSBox) and there are countless articles on the web explaining how to do so. First, you must install your game on Windows 10. This should be easy as most old games have no problem insta...

The last decade has witnessed a tremendous rise in online learning, especially for programming courses. This is not surprising, considering that such courses offer an interesting, and far more useful hands-on approach as compared to the theoretical approach widely used in colleges. Leave alone e-learning platforms, there is a growing perception that even YouTube videos are a better guide for budding programmers than a college course or degree. I've come across many such comments in YouTube courses saying "This 15 minute video taught me more about the X programming language than 6 months at college". This is not to say that college courses/degrees are entirely useless - far from it - for many software engineering jobs, your resume will be discarded if you aren't a computer science/engineering graduate. But the growing importance of online learning in software engineering cannot be ignored anymore. Udemy is among the leading e-learning providers, for many reasons such a...

 I've always been fond of WWII combat vehicles - battleships, bombers and airplanes. However, I never had an opportunity to play a simulator which allows you to control these vehicles. I am especially fascinated by bombers, how they were used to level entire cities, destroy ammunition factories and bomb railway lines. I tried War Thunder, which, though free was a download of a whopping 37 GIGABYTES. I installed it and was really enjoying it, when I noticed that it was really taxing my low-spec laptop. So I decided to go for an older sim. I had one more problem though - I did not have a flight stick. These are pretty expensive in my country, so I had to choose a simulator which allows me to use my mouse as a controller. After a bit of Google-Fu, I ended up on a flight sim forum where a poster said that Combat Flight Simulator 2 allowed using the mouse as a controller. Turns out, I was a bit lucky - the game is now considered abandonware, which means it IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD! Combat Fl...