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 ...

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 ...

There are a lot of amazing games these days, but they sometimes take years to develop, and they might still launch in a sorry state at release -- looking at you, Cyberpunk 2077. If you want to return ...

Our medium has a rich history that stretches far back into the days of DOS gaming, but the further back in time you go, the more it's a pain to get these games running on modern systems. Even if I ...

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" ...

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.

DOSBox, long the best way to play old PC games on a modern system, has its quirks. But a new take on the open-source platform, due later this year, promises to make a lot of things just that little ...

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 ...

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 ...