Fond memories of beige machines. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when "going on the computer" ...

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 ...

More than 2,500 MS-DOS games have been uploaded to the Internet Archive’s Software Library, including Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream — based on Ellison’s short story of the same ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) releases old source code. MS-DOS and Word For Windows are downloadable (but don’t call them ‘open’). The Computer History Museum (CHM) hosts the files for us, calling them ...

The list of great iPhone emulators only continues to grow following new EU regulations, and the latest is iDOS 3, which can help you play MS-DOS games on your iPhone or iPad. Developer Chaoji Li ...

Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines, ...

Ever felt like getting back to the era when we used to play games on our computer system? Back in the eighties and nineties, when there were no PlayStations and gaming consoles around, the only ...

Four years after working with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS, Microsoft is “re-open-sourcing” its command line operating system from the ’80s. This time the company ...

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...

Rumor has it that Microsoft copied CP/M to create the first version of MS-DOS for the IBM PC. These rumors have been put to rest on numerous occasions, but consultant Bob Zeidman — who himself found ...

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.