What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at technology, triumphs and failures.

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft veteran who has worked on Windows development for more than 30 years, recently explained that the Windows 95 setup caused developers more ...

The easiest way to perform the installation is to create a directory named WINSETUP in the c_drive directory and extract all the installation images to it using the command 7z x-y -0"/home/pi/win311/c ...

Old OS, old hardware, new headache: getting Windows 95 running on a PlayStation 2 is equal parts ingenuity and stubbornness. Here’s what the mod actually proves—and ... Continue Reading → ...

Veteran engineer Raymond Chen reveals why Microsoft excluded the HLT instruction from Windows 95 laptops — it was safer to drain batteries than risk bricking devices ...

Indiana Jones with a “Sankara Stone” in the film version of The Temple of Doom. The concept of the game was simple: It’s toward the end of the movie, and you’re Indiana Jones, already trapped inside ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

I've been itching to build a sleeper gaming PC for years now, but Maingear just unveiled a pre-built rig that's drenched in '90s vibes. Not only does the new Retro95 boast a beautifully beige case ...

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. It’s enough to turn off the parts of my brain that would normally despise the look of a big, gray, plastic box and transform me into a drooling retro devotee ready to ...

Late spring and early summer in the gaming world were consumed by two particular events: the release of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which earned universal acclaim and is already a front-runner for ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...