Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

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 ...

It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. But like ...

PD-DOS would soon be renamed FreeDOS, and 30 years and many contributions later, it stands as the last MS-DOS-compatible operating system still under active development.

Apple says no to PC emulators on iOS Although Apple allows for retro video game emulators, the company has rejected two apps for being PC emulators.

MS-DOS established the "standard" way to operate personal computers during the Eighties, and the text-based operating system was still playing a significant "startup" role in Windows at ...

Within a month, Microsoft had modified QDOS, which had been renamed to 86-DOS and had it running on the PC - further renaming it simply to DOS, and licensed it to IBM for use with the new computer.

DOS_deck leverages the PC emulation prowess of JS-DOS, which is a software package that turns the DOSBox emulator into a web-based service.

The IBM PC-XT had a lot more expansion slots compared to the first IBM PC that launched in 1981, but it was not as big of a leap in other hardware specs. It also had a rival PC in the Compaq Portable.

DOS-deck lets you browse and play DOS games with full controller support in a browser window on PC or Steam Deck, and so far it's an impressive tool.

One of the Internet Archive's MS-DOS game collections Fortunately, you don't need to spend any money to play thousands of classic PC games: The Internet Archive has you covered. The Internet ...