An October surprise — that’s how many are interpreting Microsoft’s 11th-hour revelation that it will be providing a virtualized copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 ...

The memory map of the original 8086 computer with its base and extended memory made the original PC rather straightforward, but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they tried to ...

If memory serves, Win95's "Boot into DOS mode" takes you to DOS 7.0, which is what Win9x is based on. To have your computer boot to DOS 6.22 you might try just adding the DOS directory right to your C ...

I upgraded to WinXP Home last November after my Win98SE had gotten so unstable that I couldn't stand it (and couldn't seem to find a way to fix it, either). But now I want to play some old games that ...