I grew up in a household which embraced tech early. My dad was a software engineer during the internet’s rise. I think there has always been a computer in my household, and I learnt how to use prompts ...

Essentially, the email wields the Easter egg as evidence that Microsoft is concealing secret, Satanic messages inside its ...

The Pocket8086 is a handheld retro computer built around classic 8086, 8088, NEC V20, or NEC V30 processors, giving it the performance and behavior of an 8086-class retro computer while still offering ...

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

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On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

Offlate, there have been lots of ways developers are reimagining tried-and-tested gameplay. No longer are games regurgitated products of titles you’ve played before. Rather, innovative concepts you’ve ...

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 ...

BlueDOS has been tested on MS-DOS 6.22, and will also work on any Windows version installed on top of DOS 6.22 (e.g., Windows 3.1). BlueDOS allows you to pair modern Bluetooth devices with your DOS ...