One of the best things about building retro gaming PCs, is that you can pretend you're back in 1999, but this time you're ...

vDos and DOXBox are free applications that lets you run old DOS Programs & DOS Games in Windows 11/10. This article shows how to use them in detail.

Among old CPUs, the 6809 never got as much attention as some of its cousins. The Radio Shack CoCo used it and so did a construction article in Wireless World Magazine. Now [Dave] has reconstructed … ...

Playing old PC games with an emulator on a PC seems wrong to me. While I understand playing Commodore 64 games in an emulator like VICE, booting an operating system and then running DOSBox on a ...

Microsoft designed a masterpiece right when the PC world needed it most. In the age of AI and dark patterns, it‘s grown only ...

DOS gaming update The PC-104 is essentially an Intel 486 processor with lots of support for standards that have long since disappeared from most computers, but this makes it great for two reasons.

Weird AliExpress laptop with Intel 8088 CPU will take you back to the MS-DOS era [Updated] "Book 8088" retro laptop promises a real-deal MS-DOS experience. Andrew Cunningham – May 19, 2023 2:28 ...

If you're into really old DOS games, this could be your dream ... The Hong Kong-based Xinrui makes the Book 8088 DOS system laptop computer. ... It supports both DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.0 from ...

IBM released its Personal Computer in August 1981 running version 1.14 of SCP's QDOS -- but a few months later Microsoft produced MS-DOS 1.24, which then became the standard IBM PC operating system.

Here’s a look at some of the best old tech that never dies. Ideas and things—chips, programs, languages—that somehow missed the cue to leave the stage. Oh, we might not notice them much anymore.

He pops open a circa-2000 IBM Thinkpad running Windows 98 and opens a portal into the train’s brain — the Automated Train Control system — through the DOS computer language.

First, try these steps to clean up your old computer, and it may feel brand-new once again. Back to top. Step 1: Give it a quick dusting. Rozette Rago/NYT Wirecutter.