Do you still have old applications or games that are no longer supported by current Windows PCs? We'll tell you how to get ...

Kenneth M. Frith is moving away from Windows XP (as he should). But he still has some old DOS programs he’s either unwilling or unable to give up. Can they run in Windows 8? The big question is: Does ...

Maybe you're not getting the true retro PC experience if you're not fiddling with settings at an emulated DOS text prompt, but there's something to be said for how easy console emulation has become ...

I learned how to create customized boot menus in DOS batch files just to avoid needing a boot floppy for that game.

A command-line interface is a terminal-style screen where you type commands at a prompt, one line at a time. You might associate it with the MS-DOS operating system that was widely used until the ...

If I play video games they're usually pretty low tech ones. One of the few games I miss from the old days is Duke Nukem, and I'm talking about the Duke before he went 3D. If you have an old DOS game ...

The internet is awash in tips on how to squeeze life out of old hardware to play the newest games. But what if you want to go in the opposite direction? Maybe you want to replay some of the gems of ...

Our medium has a rich history that stretches far back into the days of DOS gaming, but the further back in time you go, the more it's a pain to get these games running on modern systems. Even if I ...

After being added to the Apple App Store on Monday, the new iDOS application has now been removed from Apple’s store. iDOS was designed to run any program written in the old Microsoft DOS operating ...

Recently, indie developer Bernard Schilling published a new fork of the DOSBox classic-gaming emulator. If you’re not familiar with DOSBox, it’s a way to play classic MS-DOS games from the 1980s and ...