Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...

We've all seen countless attempts by people trying to run older console games on a PC, either through reverse engineering the code or the use of emulators, but one plucky hardware modder has decided ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. Need Turbo C++ for a lab assignment or legacy code check, but Windows 11 refuses to launch tc.exe? This guide shows how to get the IDE running quickly ...

On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way to use a ...

The switch from Windows 3.x to Windows 95 was a big step for Microsoft and their software developers. Accordingly, Microsoft tested the compatibility of as many programs as possible when making the ...

On Wednesday, acting FAA administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems, which ...

TL;DR: The FAA still relies on outdated 1990s technology like Windows 95 and floppy disks for air traffic control, causing risks and delays. A major modernization project, costing tens of billions and ...

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Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn't necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the ...

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Just listen to that short clip above. Go on, I'll wait. That, my friends, is the sound that began some of my early computing experiences, when this hardware writer was a mere whelp dipping his toes ...

The Windows 95 reboot chime was one of 25 audio works added to the National Recording Registry this year. Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma via Getty Images When users turned on their computers during the ...