Spotlight: BOCHS is a Pentium PC emulator for Android, brings on the retro cult

*What's a BOCHS? Well, in this case, it certainly has nothing to do with your uncle's German power drill. It's actually more of a Pentium PC emulator that can run a full-blown x86 operating system on your Android device. It all boils down to installing the application and some related content, then putting a hard disk image of your preferred operating system on your device's storage and getting the emulator to work with it.

Of course, your smartphone is a touchscreen device, not a keyboard and mouse one, so how do you do controls once Windows XP is running on your Nexus 5? BOCHS emulates ...

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