BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer ...

A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware. On Friday, RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL), the organization maintaining the FOSS version of the ...

OPINION Windows 1 and 2 flopped almost as badly as OS/2 did. How did Microsoft stage one of the greatest comebacks ever with Windows 3? Earlier this month, we took a look at how Microsoft learned ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

I respect & support ideas of open-source. Interested in low-level solutions (firmware/kernel) and application software. Have you ever wondered what happens the moment you press the power button on ...

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… ...

The 8086 Assembly Language Programs repository is a curated collection of low-level assembly code designed to verify and strengthen the understanding of the 8086 microprocessor architecture. It ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

To decrease or increase appropriated sound device volume, press Ctrl + related button and numpad "+" / "-", for example Ctrl + "D" + "-" will decrease DSS volume, Ctrl + "S" + "+" - increase whole ...