People who know me know I have an interest in vintage computing. My first foray into the land of the PC-compatibles was in 1991, when our family took possession of a 386SX/16 running Microsoft Windows 3.0 and MS-DOS 5.0. This was the first version of Windows to include the card game Solitaire. While some may…

When I started using computers, the Commodore 64 and other similar-vintage computers were a very common sight. Games back then were relatively simple, because they had to be. The limited resources in these machines placed severe limitations on what was possible, and game developers would frequently try and push these machines to their limit to…