On Sunday, Singapore-based retrocomputing enthusiast Yeo Kheng Meng released a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS that can run on a 4.77 MHz IBM PC from 1981, providing a unique way to converse with the ...

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 ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has been ...

Nobody makes games like they used to, but that’s OK, because MS-DOS games now live in your browser thanks to the Internet Archive. The 2,400 available games are entirely playable and work without ...

Here's the problem:<BR><BR>I need the C-program to detect whether it's being run inside a Windows dos-box. I've already got working-code for detecting Windows 95/98/Me. (INT 0x2F, AX=0x160A -- from ...

Vista users are ecstatic about Windows 7, but what about all the fourteen hardcore users who bought Windows 1.0 after reading the first review ever in Byte’s December 1983 issue? Here are the ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the deep end. This ...