It's completely legal to explore vast swaths of the history of PC gaming without paying a dime. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and recommendations for ...

Katelyn has been a journalist for nearly 15 years, with focuses on science and technology, law, politics, and now the games industry. She's particularly proud of her work interviewing developers of ...

DOS_deck is a new way to play classic games released for the MS-DOS operating system on the Steam Deck or PC browser with a controller. The UI follows the look and feel of the Steam Deck interface. So ...

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 ...

FreeDOS, the free and open-source alternative to Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), just released a new major update. It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, ...

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 ...

Based in Rome, Diana loves all kinds of stories, even though she’s too lazy for most things that aren’t games. She's a freelance writer with a degree in Art History, contributing to GameRant while she ...

A popular DOS emulator called iDOS 3, is now available for iPhone and iPad, allowing users to play classic DOS games on Apple devices running iOS 12 or later for a price of just $0.99. iDOS 3 is a ...

Playing old PC games with an emulator on a PC seems wrong to me. While I understand playing Commodore 64 games in an emulator like VICE, booting an operating system and then running DOSBox on a ...