If you want to make your classic games run on a modern PC, you’ll have to become familiar with DOSBox, a fully configurable DOS PC emulator that is absolutely necessary for getting most pre-Windows XP ...

Video games are still a young medium, but they are now reaching an age where “retro gaming” is an ever increasing market. Sony Computer Entertainment, for example, recently celebrated the 20 year ...

Strictly-speaking modern x86 computers running Windows should be compatible with any software written for the very first MS-DOS PCs starting with the original IBM PC and its clones. In practice, it's ...

The major benefit I see in DOSBox Pure over DOSBox Classic is a sort of built-in containerization for games. DOSBox Pure creates a separate environment for each game automatically when it's "opened" ...

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As advanced as today’s gaming titles are, they just don’t have the appeal that simple games of the DOS era had. After all, who can forget the good old days of Bio Menace, Dangerous Dave and SkyRoads.

I've been asked to find some games to run as entertainment for kids at a school fete, and figured an easier way around the copyright morass and installation difficulties would be to run some old, now ...

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For many people, the golden age of PC gaming was the DOS era. Or maybe that is just my nostalgia kicking in. Either way, emulation is the key to reliving those days, playing old games that are neither ...