Nowadays you can't run old Microsoft game on a Microsoft operating system. Call me when you manage to open Age of Empires on Windows. The original Age of Empires that ...

TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had the ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

Recently I wondered if I could download Steam on to my Mum's far from sprightly desktop (I'm trying to offer her a PC Gaming education). Unfortunately, it turns out my Mum has held on to an HP Pro ...

Converting Win3 apps to Win95 was a major PITA. To get the Win95 sticker you had to implement in C++ using the MFC classes. It gave you lots of the Win95 features that we know and love, but for the ...