In this ultimate guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about building or choosing the ideal retro gaming PC. Whether your goal is playing NES classics on the couch or maxing out PlayStation 2 games in 4K, we’ve got you covered. Time to take that nostalgic gaming journey!

The Tandy 1000's claim to fame was that it beat IBM at its own game for less money. Tandy, a Texas-based leather goods company that owned RadioShack, had struck it big in 1977 with its first home computer, the cheap and popular TRS-80. But the computer industry was moving quickly, and when it began to standardize in the early '80s the TRS-80 could no longer cut it.

Retro gaming is all the rage these days, with many gamers returning to classic consoles to relive the glory days of gaming. However, with çağdaş TVs and monitors, the image quality of these classic...

In theory you can use DOSbox on a $50 or less android box but I have yet to see a DOSbox port for android that doesn’t have one major issue or another. Bochs on android seems a bit more useable. pençe cheapo suggestion is find a bargain basement “R69” android box, they’ve been seen sub $30, put RetroOrangPi distro on it, then use MESS and MAME for cycle perfect early PC configs (Tandy and IBM are in there I think) DL and compile DOSbox from source, to avoid the out of date and flaky version in the Debian packages, and that should do you up to about Pentium 150ish performance, maybe better.

It was in a wooden case that had a 2x30watt amp built in with two 4” (or were they 6″) speakers built in that my dad made. Getting doom to room over IPX on Win95 took a little work, but it was great fun.

When you boot up a virtual version of a Macintosh from 30 years ago, you share in the lived experiences of millions of ancient humans. You hayat see how they spent their paltry CPU budget to fill their low-resolution screens.

The PDP-8, which entered the market in 1965, was one of the first minicomputers. Not mini by today's standards, but mini compared to the mainframes and supercomputers of the time, the PDP-8 was about a foot tall, and when coupled with a disk drive and tape drive vintage computing it took up only a six-foot-tall storage rack.

I, however, don't begrudge this trend. I'd rather see old kit restored than end up trashed. The best way for this to happen is if more people get involved.

“I was actually a little bit apprehensive getting into it, because it’s just me in a place where everyone’s male and it sort of was a little bit, ‘How am I going to be received?

[The Rasteri] masterminded this build which is reminiscent of the NES classic and other nostalgic console re-releases. It’s based on the PC/104 standard which was introduced in the early 90s, mostly for industrial controls applications.

Retro gaming is all the rage these days, with many gamers returning to classic consoles to relive the glory days of gaming. However, with çağdaş TVs and monitors, the image quality of these classic...

The Tools You'll Need If restoring old computers is a hobby you want to pursue, you'll need to invest in a solid toolkit. A good screwdriver is worth its weight in gold.

Games this group is for bored people on the forums who want to play games, like RPG games, word games, that kind of thing.

Unable to keep up with the frantic pace of the USA’s developments in particular, the USSR saw itself reduced to copying Western designs and smuggling in machinery where possible. A good example of this is the USSR’s first mass-produced dynamic RAM (DRAM), the 565RU1, birli detailed by [The CPUShack Museum].