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 ...

DOSBox Pure is a new fork of 'old PC' emulator DOSBox - built to deliver console-like ease of use. Available now, the emulator is also of note as it fits in nicely with the increasingly popular ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A MS-DOS emulator called DOSBox has been ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook, allowing it to run Windows 3.1. A ...

Before the IBM PC changed the computer world forever, for many the pinnacle of personal computing was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and the BBC Micro. For gamers these computers defined the ...

As part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer, the Xbox One is being upgraded to support application development. In preparation for this change, Xbox One consoles enrolled in the preview ...

Our sister site TouchArcade is following the story of iDOS, a new emulator application that appeared in the App Store earlier today which allows users to run DOS and even Windows 3.0 on their iOS ...

Game emulators are now banned from the Windows Store following a change to the rules, and Microsoft has wasted no time getting rid of the ones already there. According to the new rules, put into ...

Consumers with Microsoft devices will be unable to download and use emulators from the Windows Store thanks to efforts to clamp down on games piracy. Microsoft previously announced it would be ...