The "Turbo" button was very common in 286 and 386 PC clones, less common in 486 PCs, and almost extinct by the time Pentium processors became mainstream in the late 1990s. As technology advanced ...

(Win 3.x, 286 and up)Used when applications did not work under 386 Enhanced Mode. Real Mode (Win 3.x, 286 and up) Used for compatibility with DOS applications and earlier Windows 1.x and 2.x ...

AT-class machines ran DOS and were extremely sluggish under Windows. See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the ...

But what about the old school PC gamers who want to relive their glory ... Raspberry Pi enclosure is designed to look like the 286 desktop that he had in his youth, complete with a functional ...

Even so, Windows took a while to catch on. Many PCs were not that high-spec. If you had a 286 PC, it could use a megabyte or more of memory. If you had a 386 with 2MB of RAM, it could run in 386 ...

In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continued through a number of university courses and crappy jobs until 2008 ...

Now [mcuhacker] is working on bringing some of those memories back by getting a PC-XT emulator running on an ESP8266. For the x86 CPU emulator, he ported Fake86 which is written in C, and created ...

What are the best new PC games in 2024? Perhaps you’ve just been paid, your bank account is filled with virtual dosh, or you simply want to get caught up with the latest PC games because they ...

Hope and anticipation, agony and elation – the endless cycle of emotions we go through during the annual PC release schedule. What started out as a story expansion to the acclaimed ARPG from ...

If you're a console gamer thinking about jumping into the world of PC gaming, using a controller can make the transition smoother, keeping that familiar feel while you explore a new platform.

Our favorite Game Pass deal is back and better than ever before. For October Prime Day, Woot! (which is owned by Amazon) is ...