Tutorial: Two Ways to Lookup Your Own IP Address

What is an IP address? An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique address within a network used by devices to communicate with other devices within the network. Computers, printers, routers, and network hard drives are examples of devices that could have an IP address within a network. IP addresses are generally assigned according to country and internet provider. There are also some specially...

December 17th, 2007 by Blink 7 

Hamachi Patch for AOE 3 (all versions) and AOM

It was some time ago I wrote the original tutorial on how to make Age of Empires 3 work with a freeware Virtual Private Networking (VPN) program called Hamachi. There have been many questions about where to find the AOE3VPN.exe patch referenced in the tutorial, with some readers were to find it from the supplied Google search bar. The good news is that a much-improved patch is available from Crea-Doo...

November 12th, 2007 by Blink 7 

Nintendo Wii - A Truly Family-Oriented Game Machine

Shortly after our wedding I asked my wife what she’d like as a wedding gift: a digital SLR or a Nintendo Wii console (this is as romantic as many techies get, after all). To my surprise and eventual delight she chose the Wii. We lucked out by arriving to a Best Buy barely an hour after the shipment arrived and scored a Wii console that someone else had probably been waiting on for weeks. And so...

October 22nd, 2007 by Blink 7 

Tutorial: Internet Gaming with Age of Empires 3 and Hamachi

Summary This tutorial will demonstrate how to use Hamachi and a special game patch to link two or more computers for multiplayer game play in Age of Empires 3. Since its release, AOE3 has caused many headaches for players due to the game only recognizing an internal IP address (ie 192.168.x.x). This flaw makes Internet gaming impossible, since only computers on an internal LAN can see an internal IP...

October 20th, 2007 by Blink 7