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.

Some of the best games from the 80s and 90s ran on DOS, but due to architecture changes, are completely unavailable on modern operating systems. This is how I play them today, and how you can too. How ...

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 ...

Running games during the DOS era was trouble enough, and today exploring those old games can be a nightmare. Sound card issues, memory management and other peculiarities of early PC gaming amplified ...

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" ...

The PC has been one of the most powerful gaming platforms for as long as it has existed, continually providing the best graphics and most advanced features. In its early days, players were impressed ...

MS-DOS is a bit before my time but I expect a lot of our readers are at the age where getting out of bed is a risk for your back and knees. Sometimes you get bored of modern games and feel like having ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk ...

Being a Mac gamer often means being disappointed. Triple-A titles don't usually come to OS X at the same time that they come to Windows (if they come at all), mainly because the OS X market is so much ...