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I finally got an old favorite game of my running under Windows XP. Using DOSBox I was able to get Ultimate Domain installed from CD and running with sound. The game ran very slowly at first. I sped up the CPU cycles using DOSBox, but that only distorted the sound. The problem is the faster the DOSBox runs, the slower Windows runs, which means taking CPU cycles away from the sound emulation.

If you didn’t know, Ultimate Domain is a turn-based strategy game. Although your turns play int real-time. You play as 1 of 3 kings searching for 9 jewels, which will allow you to take over the empire, or something like that. You start off with 4 settlers, each with their own stats, such as age and moral. You have to research new technologies if your settlers are going to survive.

It’s too bad Software Toolworks never made a follow-up to this game.

Nvu - Web site authoring system.

Waste - Encrypted Collaboration Tool

Firefox - Replace Internet Explorer for all your browsing needs

Filezilla - FTP client and server

Ethereal - network protocal analyzer (aka Packet sniffer)

The GIMP - Graphics tool, ala Photoshop. 2.0 is improved, but the interface still takes some getting used to.

PuTTY - Telnet/SSH Client

OpenOffice - A free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites.

PDFCreator - Creates PDFs from any Windows program.

Xchat - Multi-platform Open Source IRC client

MSDN Magazine had a good article on a number of .NET developer tools; all free, some open source. Check out the article here. I personally use half of this tools already.

A new extension for FireFox allows you to see when new Gmail arrives. I have tried this extension with FireFox .9.1 and it works great.

Download the Gmail Notifier 0.3.1