Linux is very good at running older software, but even the free and open-source operating system is stumped by the really ancient stuff developed for MS-DOS. Let’s go over how you can get ...

DOSBox provides a full DOS environment, but by default it does not have access to any of your Windows files and folders. Thus, before you can run a program in DOSBox, you must mount its folder inside ...

My father is currently using an old Windows 95 machine circa 1999 to run a DOS program which he uses to bill the government. Buying a new program is not really an option because all the modern ...

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" ...

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 ...

OK, so sticking this under 16-bit is a bit of a crude fit, but a great many of the PC’s pre-3D classics date from a heyday around the same time as the SNES and Sega Genesis. A variety of ways exist to ...

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 ...

Someone is always trying to get some old OS or other bit of software to run on modern platforms for no other reason than nostalgia or because they wanted to. The most recent of this sort of feat is a ...

The developer version of the console is needed to make the old OS work. Someone has managed to get Windows 95 running on an Xbox One system. The Xbox One in question is running Dosbox, the virtual DOS ...

The Xbox One can run Windows 10 apps and games like Halo 5: Guardians, Forza Motorsport 6, and Sunset Overdrive. Now, thanks to YouTuber Vcfan, the Xbox One can (sort of) run Windows 95 (via Eurogamer ...