The PC has been one of the most powerful gaming platforms for as long as it has existed, continually providing the best graphics and most advanced features. In its early days, players were impressed ...

The PC-104 is essentially an Intel 486 processor with lots of support for standards that have long since disappeared from most computers, but this makes it great for two reasons. First, it can control ...

Every once in awhile Ars publishes DOS articles, which gets me thinking about DOS again, and I thought, perhaps there would be value in DOS perpetual thread on the Forums, for non-article-specific DOS ...

Oldie but goldie: In recent years, retro gaming has turned into big business. Home consoles have somewhat adopted a backward-compatible approach, and PC-focused initiatives such as GOG have infused ...

Strictly-speaking modern x86 computers running Windows should be compatible with any software written for the very first MS-DOS PCs starting with the original IBM PC and its clones. In practice, it's ...

Some people might consider the Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS) era as the golden age of PC gaming. That's when games like The Secret of Monkey Island, Ultima VI: The False Prophet, Doom, SimCity, and a bunch ...

A shattering new form of the “denial-of-service” computer attack could be on the rise, according to a company that controls some of the internet’s core infrastructure. In a conventional DoS attack, ...

You hear it said all the time: one of the best reasons to own a Steam Deck is for emulating classic games. The Steam Deck is fundamentally a PC, but despite this, you'll rarely hear anyone talk about ...