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.

Robert Wray wants to know if his old DOS programs will run in Windows 7. Here’s the general rule: If the DOS program ran in XP, it will probably run in a 32-bit version of Windows 7. But no DOS ...

I learned how to create customized boot menus in DOS batch files just to avoid needing a boot floppy for that game.

Do you long to play Zork on your Powerbook? Do you miss typing ‘CD’ and ‘dir,’ and you don’t want to learn Unix commands? Well then, DOSBox is for you. DOSBox is a small application that emulates DOS, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, indie developer Bernard Schilling published a new fork of the DOSBox classic-gaming emulator. If you're not familiar with DOSBox, it's a way to play classic MS-DOS games from the 1980s and ...