TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

In the past, I've chronicled a list of some of my favorite modern-style Windows 11 PC applications to grace the Microsoft Store. These apps aren't your run-of-the-mill legacy Win32 programs -- rather, ...

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… ...

Imagine if the great Captain Nemo had a computer onboard his submarine The Nautilus. It’s a tantalizing idea and not a million miles from the incredible imagination of early sci-fi writer Jules Verne.