Sir Arthur    Exactly three months after the release of the previous version, the ScummVM team has now released a new update for adventurers’ and role players’ favorite virtual machine. ScummVM . . actually is a maintenance release, a minor update designed to fix bugs that emerged since the last stable...

Sir Arthur    As I have said in the past few weeks, Box is a PC emulator that is constantly updated and is probably destined for great things in the future. A month after the release of version . , developers have now released a minor update mainly designed to fix the bugs that surfaced in the previous...

Sir Arthur    Despite being on the market for nearly years, RPCS is a project in a perpetual Alpha state for which no official stable builds exist yet. The open source PlayStation emulator is updated quite frequently, but the development mode makes it difficult to keep track of all the progress and...

Sir Arthur    The last official update for DOSBox dates back to , with minor release . . Since then, one of the most significant projects in the history of PC emulation has been like suspended in time, while SVN builds compiled from the most recent changes to the source code have been idle for months....

Sir Arthur    As I wrote a few weeks ago, Box is one of the most interesting emulators for Windows retrogaming around today. Born as a fork of PCem in , Box can recreate in software a long and ever growing list of virtual hardware components to run vintage software, operating systems and video games....

Sir Arthur    As I tried to explain in my previous post on the subject, third party antivirus programs no longer have a future. Paid products are outright bloatware containing an obscene number of useless and unwanted features, while free antivirus are spyware, at best, which have betrayed their sole raison d’...

Sir Arthur    That is not dead which can live forever, and DOS will certainly never die. At least as long as there are enthusiasts like Dev Anand Teelucksingh, who for years has maintained one of the most useful curated lists of software for MS DOS and compatible operating systems on the Web. Interesting DOS...

Sir Arthur    Over the past few months, while terrible and wicked forces kept me away from the blog, code craftsmen have been hard at work turning retrogaming and emulation into even more complete and easy to use experiences. In particular, I’m talking about ScummVM, DREAMM, Box and DOSBox ECE: the first...

Sir Arthur    Hundreds of gigabytes of Matroska files are sitting on my HDD. It’s an embarrassing situation that needs to be fixed. I have a binge watching tradition to keep. The post Total binge watching Summer first appeared on Sir Arthur’s Den.

Sir Arthur    My gaming career owes a lot to designer Éric Chahi, Delphine Software and to legendary cinematic platform games of the Nineties. The post Another World, Flashback, Heart of Darkness: the holy Trimurti of French cinematic platformers first appeared on Sir Arthur’s Den.

Sir Arthur    Nothing on the Internet lasts forever, and cloud rot is the inescapable future awaiting anyone and anything that relies on remote servers. The post Cloud rot first appeared on Sir Arthur’s Den.

Sir Arthur    It’s been just under three years since the debut of ninth generation gaming consoles, but it already feels like a lot more. The COVID pandemic first, and the war after that, have radically influenced the perception of time in economics, society, even psychology in every part of the world. As for...

Sir Arthur    Since I installed it on my secondary SSD on May, , Elden Ring has become a permanent part of my computer life bringing me endless, sleepless nights, a creeping heart condition at least when I play and an unhealthy love for the Souls genre. Elden Ring is one of those rare cases when a video...

Sir Arthur    In the past, when software didn’t rely on the Internet and it had to work in the state it was distributed to stores, manufacturing companies had an interest in doing a somewhat decent job. Well aware of the technological leap brought by Windows , Microsoft was putting special working modes into...

Sir Arthur    Something rotten, something deeply wrong lives and thrives within the gaming industry. A worm digging inside you, turning people and companies which were already horrible before into something that’s humanly, economically and socially unsustainable. The worm eats games’ code infecting them with...

Sir Arthur    Since it came on the market in , Wata Games has completely distorted the old games search and buy experience. Nowadays, even the worst gaming filth, and the most deceiving sellers, can boast that fucking Wata grading badge and the ludicrous plastic box coming with it as an alleged guarantee...

Sir Arthur    The ScummVM team has recently announced the availability of a new, important update for the old school adventurers’ favorite virtual machine. ScummVM . . includes a large number of changes as usual, adding support for a large bunch of new games without forgetting about the previously supported...

Sir Arthur    Once upon a time there were NFTs, that horrible cryptographic shit that should have been yet another future of video games and the entire universe. As already happened countless times in the past, and as it will happen again many more times within the upcoming years hello, ChatGPT, nobody...

Sir Arthur    As you can easily see by glancing at the Gaming widget here on the side, I’m a type of gamer who has developed a certain fondness for games that are challenging, long, very long or rather virtually infinite. It wasn’t always like this, as I spent my formative years mostly playing coin eating...

Sir Arthur    Happy new year everyone. Hoping that will be much more productive both for the blog and other personal professional projects, I’m starting the new year with a tasty yet not particularly demanding post. Subject: a request to Intel for a new label for my PC’s CPU. A small test to personally...