Here's the problem:<BR><BR>I need the C-program to detect whether it's being run inside a Windows dos-box. I've already got working-code for detecting Windows 95/98/Me. (INT 0x2F, AX=0x160A -- from ...

I can get an emulator to run almost every machine under Windows... but no-one has ever done a Real Mode DOS emulation program for it. Why? Is it not technically possible for a fast enough computer to ...

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which ...

If you are an inveterate tinkerer—and a lot of scientists can certainly be classified as such—it's likely that you'll eventually develop a yen for customizing your PC once the pleasure of mastering ...

A hobbyist programmer named Piotr "maniek86" Grzesik recently unveiled his latest project. The M8SBC-486 motherboard is ...

Last week, we reported that PC emulators won’t come to iOS because Apple only allows emulators that emulate a console, not an entire operating system. However, after initially rejecting the two PC ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...