Microsoft has once again made the source code of a version of its ancient MS-DOS operating system available for download. Originally, an English researcher named Connor "Starfrost" Hyde wanted to talk ...

Fond memories of beige machines. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when "going on the computer" ...

The list of great iPhone emulators only continues to grow following new EU regulations, and the latest is iDOS 3, which can help you play MS-DOS games on your iPhone or iPad. Developer Chaoji Li ...

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.

If you played MS-DOS games in the 1990s, you should have seen the 'DOS/4GW' banner at least once. Experts with detailed knowledge explain on blogs what tools DOS/4GW did and how they functioned. When ...

What would you do if you stumbled across a massive cache of hundreds of your favourite computer games from years gone by? And learned that they were absolutely free to play, without any special ...

As a child of the '90s, I still retain a nostalgia for the days of MS-DOS. My time with Microsoft's old, text-based operating system was mostly spent using basic file-browsing functionality or booting ...

Facepalm: Microsoft deserves kudos for open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code, shedding light on an important milestone in computing history. But the tech giant has bungled the release in a way ...

Chris Drumm is a lifelong gamer with a BA in English writing and years of experience writing articles and news online. He's played hundreds of games in dozens of genres, enjoyed them all, and put more ...

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