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The Revival of Microsoft Flight Simulator X

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Today Dovetail Games released an update for former Microsoft Flight Simulator X. This new version is branded as Steam Edition and is currently available for 5 USD/EUR. Compared to the original, released in 2006, FSXSE is Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 compatible.

The power of FSX is the addon compatibility, giving hundreds of features, landscapes and planes. I hope its just a matter of time before high-quality DLC will be available in the Steam Store.

I personally am  glad to see this game being updated and make compatible with actual Windows versions.

My favorite Windows PC maintenance tools

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For daily and periodic pc cleaning (Windows) I use the following tools:

How-To run The Sims 3 on Windows 8.1 (64 bits)

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If you – like me – would like to run The Sims 3 on Windows 8.1 and have problems with crashes and compatibility I`ve got the fix.

This is easily fixed by applying the latest official patch to the game, which is TS3_1.42.130.0190xx_update.exe and can be downloaded by clicking the link.
After appplying this patch The Sims 3 will start!

PhpStorm and Subversion on Windows

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To use Subversion (SVN) under Windows on JetBrains PHPStorm 7, 8 and 9 you`ll need to install the Subversion Client  1.8.x from CollabNet first.
This can be found at www.collab.net/downloads/subversion

After installing the client, go to File –> Settings –> Version Control  –> Subversion
And set the path to C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client\svn.exe   or whatever path you have installed the client in to.

How-to move the Sims 3 save game to a different location

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the sims 3 savegame can be multiple gigabytes large
in Windows, you could use a symbolic link to trick the game where the savegame is located;

in DOS run the following command, and replace Ramon by your Windows Username

mklink /J "C:\Users\Ramon\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3" "D:\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3"