Game publisher 2K, along with development studio Firaxis, recently flew members of the gaming press to their offices to play the latest version of Civilization, now up to number 7 (see below for ...

In a nutshell: The Civilization games have been around since the start of the 1990s, entertaining millions of people. The launch date of the series' seventh numbered title has just been announced, but ...

You can only take retro so far, especially when it comes to computers. Older hardware won't get you far if you need something actually usable. The most you can do is to make, usually 3D print, an ...

As you may have heard by now, the Linux kernel is dropping support for the 386 processor. It’s okay. I’ll wait right here while you finish pushing over monitors and flipping over every desk at work in ...

The outside of this PC screams 1991. The inside, however, is very much from 2018. A self-confessed “beige-aholic”, Tylinol wanted to try something different with his latest PC build, and so did what ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In December 2012, Linux developer Ingo Molnar sent Linus ...

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...

__ 1991: __Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old university student from Finland, writes a post to a user group asking for feedback on a little project he's working on. He's built a simple kernel for a ...

Some people are never satisfied. It wasn`t all that long ago when state-of-the-art personal computing power consisted of an IBM PC with all of 64 kilobytes of memory, more than enough to run the more ...

I'm looking for a 386 SX PGA processor. Any speed; I don't even care if it works.<P>Also if anyone has a PGA 387 SX I'd go for that, too. I'm not entirely certain they made PGA 387s, though.