- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- Download Accelerator Plus 8.5, Just Does Faster — Downloading files you’ve found online too often becomes a pain if a file is large (in some cases, it can become a pain for EVERY file). Downloading takes too much time. Downloading fails by timeouts and disconnections, and you stay with a useless file part. In most cases, you can’t even figure out for sure whether the file has been downloaded completely! Want to solve it? Asking for my advice? Here…
- Tordex Wheel 1.0, Heroes of Usability — There are always many different opinions on the usability of operating systems (which means the ease and pleasure of use, ease of understanding, and many other things). Each OS has its fans, critics and pragmatics; basically, each solution has its pros and contras related to its user interface. The first versions of Windows, despite the wide adoption, were highly criticized for the lack of usability; over the last years, Windows has passed through major…
- Billionaire II, Business Game For A New Century — «Business simulator» games has a long story. Some time ago there were board games originated from the times of «naive business», pre-XX-century’s «civilizing» changes, from times, when business rules were «wild» (yet somebody will argue it was a good times). Times have changed, business has changed, life has changed, and old games with their old stories aren’t appropriate anymore. We need a new…
- Download Studio 4.0, A File Grabbing Combine — The good old times, when most of us had slow, unreliable Internet connections, were the times of the rise of «file downloaders». The first ones of them were naive, and all they could do was «download this file, in spite of disconnects and low download speed». But the software kept undergoing the development, became smarter and more automated, and mature downloaders suddenly became really useful programs EVEN in the times…
- Blue Dragon, Homerun Battle — If you have passion for flying plane, if you hunger for an action, if you want to squeeze the use out of every spare minute, the Blue Dragon air fight game is something you ought to check out. Its simple scenario and common controls take you captive, and for hours you keep acting as a WWII pilot codenamed ’Blue Dragon’. Your mission in the game is to return home from a successful raid and cross the enemy…
- Enterra Download Manager — Those of us who regularly download large amounts of data from the web, and especially those who pay for their traffic, know well that a download manager is a must have if you don’t want to lose money, time and nerves. Unfortunately, the standard managers integrated in most popular browsers leave much to be desired and lose a lot to commercial applications. If you need a functional download manager that would…
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