Hackster: Andrew Warkentin’s Virtual OS Museum Collects 174GB of Ready-to-Use Vintage Operating Systems. “Developer and vintage computing historian Andrew Warkentin has released the most exhaustive collection of operating systems you could imagine, all ready to run in a virtual machine: the Virtual OS Museum.”

Ancient Unix paper (well, book) of the day – "An Extension of the Unix Operating System for Multiprocessors" (in German). Technical report of the SFB 182 collaborative research centre, project B2, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1989.

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The Register: Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00. “Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it’s 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts. The release comes a year after Microsoft set the source for MS-DOS 4.0 free, but it includes a lot more than just the bones […]

Tom’s Hardware: Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more. “Posted as an open-source project on GitHub under the GPL license, but accessible via its own website, the project has faithfully recreated the appearance of a […]

Tom’s Hardware: You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games. “The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) and SDF.org have made 28 vintage computer systems accessible online for free. There’s a plethora of old but gold – some legendary – systems available, so […]

How-To Geek: 52 years later, UNIX V4 has been rediscovered and digitized. “For decades, there were no known copies of UNIX Fourth Edition, with only some source code and manuals surviving to the present day. That changed when a nine-track tape reel containing UNIX V4 was discovered in a storage room at the University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing. The tape was delivered to the Computer […]

The Register: Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads. “Legacy Update has for years been a tremendously useful site and tool for those wanting to keep older versions of Windows alive and in active use. The site has updated its archive of files that Microsoft used to make available for free download in the official Download Center, but has in its finite wisdom removed.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/the-register-legacy-update-expands-archive-of-vanished-microsoft-downloads/

TechSpot: Classic 3D Maze screensaver from Windows 95 is now fully playable. “The original 3D Maze allowed a ‘player’ to navigate through a randomly generated maze, which impressed many users experiencing Windows 95 for the first time. Earlier this year, a programmer decided to turn the tool into a fully playable game – a task that proved surprisingly straightforward.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/22/techspot-classic-3d-maze-screensaver-from-windows-95-is-now-fully-playable/

Tom’s Hardware: DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core. “Other features of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, like the ability to run games directly from ZIP archives, support for Voodoo graphics emulation up to 4K/UHD, and using MIDI synths and SoundFonts, are also […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/20/toms-hardware-dosbox-pure-unleashed-is-ready-for-windows-mac-and-linux-computers-after-five-years-in-development-enhanced-standalone-release-no-longer-restricted-to-being-a-retroarch-co/

Digital Preservation at Cambridge: Floppy Disks, Forgotten Systems and Fragile Knowledge: Insights from the Retro Computing Community. “As part of the Future Nostalgia project, a series of interviews were conducted with members of the retro computing community. These conversations highlighted not only the deeply technical expertise of the interviewees, but also personal stories and experiences […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/floppy-disks-forgotten-systems-and-fragile-knowledge-insights-from-the-retro-computing-community-digital-preservation-at-cambridge/