You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...

My father is currently using an old Windows 95 machine circa 1999 to run a DOS program which he uses to bill the government. Buying a new program is not really an option because all the modern ...

"I must be old because I still use DOS," a reader says. He's not old, he's smart. It is the fastest, cleanest way to control any PC using the Microsoft operating system. And he gave us some examples ...

I’m trying to rebuild an ancient ‘screensaver’ art exhibit for a client. I’ve encountered legacy hardware and software limitations in that the .exe needed to run is coded for 16bit DOS, and there is ...

DOSBox makes it possible to play games and run software designed for MS-DOS on a wide range of platforms. Though this emulator makes interacting with DOS relatively straightforward, the open-source ...

Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...