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Retro PC gaming is making a comeback as DIY builds offer a more authentic way to play older titles

Nestled in the shadow of stunning AAA graphics, custom PC builds that cost as much as a used car, and throbbing RGB lighting is a growing collective of retro PC gaming enthusiasts who want nothing ...
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Rising hardware costs lead gamers to $500 retro PC builds

The world of retro PC gaming has seen a massive rise in popularity of late, and for good reason. As PC hardware prices continue to balloon, it's getting ever harder to justify spending thousands on a ...
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A few weeks with the Pocket 386, an early-‘90s-style, half-busted retro PC

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… ...
Ars Technica

There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs

If you’re still using a computer you bought during the Clinton administration, interesting news: Crystal Dew World, developers of apps like CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, have released an update ...
TechSpot

Custom retro PC project uses a compact x86 SoC to run DOS games with native hardware

In context: For those looking to build a retro gaming PC in a tiny form factor, Eivind Bohler's ITX-Llama could be a perfect DIY project for you. He recently dropped an introductory video on YouTube ...
Liliputing

Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95

The Pocket 386 is a tiny laptop computer with a 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard, and a body that’s small enough that you might actually be able to fit it into a (large) pocket. It’s also a device ...