For a certain generation, failing at The Oregon Trail was a rite of passage. Walk up to anyone of a particular age and mutter, "you have died of dysentery," and they'll nod in solemn understanding.

Just visit the Internet Archive's MS-DOS library, pick an interesting title, and paste the URL into a tweet. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make ...

The collection will hit store shelves on November 27th for PC and most consoles. Did you play Street Racer back in the 90s?

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We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code for MS ...

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

It's no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? That got Hanselman and Wilcox digging into the ...