I've just found out about these new retro gaming laptops based on ancient PC hardware, and I just had to tell the world all about them too. If, like me, you have fond memories of playing Doom and The ...

Emulators are easy and convenient, but for some retrocomputing enthusiasts nothing comes close to running classic software on actual era-appropriate hardware. This can become a problem, though, for ...

Accessory maker Shargeek recently launched an Indiegogo to fund its latest device — a charging brick shaped like a retro Apple computer with a functional display. The Retro 67 is a compact charging ...

The early days of home computing were an exciting and unpredictable time. Different manufacturers were competing at different price points, with varied form factors, each with their own idea of what a ...

Old computers — everyone has one (or at least parts of one) collecting dust in the attic somewhere. Depending on when you bought it, it might have been obsolete within a year, or, if you were a very ...

The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to build a retro gaming PC, based on original hardware from the 1990s, with a few modern touches. It can run DOS games and early Windows games, but it'll also look ...

In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...