Windows 95

[Stugotsv10]

So at  my parents house I found a couple old PC's which and I do mean OLD.  2 I built and 2 were purchased (Compaq's lol) Pentium 3, Pentium 4 and Celerons so my question is since the hardware is old enough to be of era (like Win 95 would know what it is) Can I not only install 95 but would it be able to get online? Since the ethernet card is of the era? or would the certificates stop me all together?  I kinda of what to use the system for a multi boot win 95/98/ME/2000/XP

 

Thanks guys

[WhitetailAni]

You might be able to install 95, though you'd have to use 64MB or less of RAM.

They're better suited for 98 SE and 2000.

Also no, you can't go online due to the certificate issues (and you shouldn't anyway - unsafe).

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Stugotsv10 said:

So at  my parents house I found a couple old PC's which and I do mean OLD.  2 I built and 2 were purchased (Compaq's lol) Pentium 3, Pentium 4 and Celerons so my question is since the hardware is old enough to be of era (like Win 95 would know what it is) Can I not only install 95 but would it be able to get online? Since the ethernet card is of the era? or would the certificates stop me all together?  I kinda of what to use the system for a multi boot win 95/98/ME/2000/XP

 

Thanks guys

You can get online, but nothing will render properly, as all the modern things like CSS, etc the old IE won't know what to do with. Even something as simple as www.google.com won't render right

[Stugotsv10]

Ahhh ok.. so 95's Max ram is 64MB... ok I'll have to lower it in bios (I Think the weakest system has 512) IF those old bios will let me lol

 

Also once its installed can I put he ram back to 512? 

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Stugotsv10 said:

Ahhh ok.. so 95's Max ram is 64MB... ok I'll have to lower it in bios (I Think the weakest system has 512) IF those old bios will let me lol

 

Also once its installed can I put he ram back to 512? 

No. Windows 95 does not support past 64MB.

To use 512MB of RAM you'd need Windows 98 SE or newer. 98 FE supports 256MB and 2000 2GB.

[Stugotsv10]

ohhhh ok so whenever I'm GOING to load ill drop the Ram down to 64mb in bios.  (When I saw USE it I mean likely look at it since there is not much I can do with it lol)

[SignatureSigner]

Matt KC did a video on this where he did close to what your doing. He had some things that I think will help you. In DOS you can limit ram and his videos show how to do it.

 

[Stugotsv10]

I think I did see that awhile ago, I'll have to dig that up and check it out  Thanks guys!!!!

[Archer42]

10 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Also no, you can't go online due to the certificate issues (and you shouldn't anyway - unsafe).

Well, on win95/win98 it is probably perfectly safe at this point - because no malware will work and known xp/vista/7/10 vulnerabilities would not exist there either.

[Stugotsv10]

I think if nothing else it brings back memories for me... and lately thats kind of important 

[Radium_Angel]

If you can find it (and that's a big if) very old versions of Opera still work kind of okay online, should let you browse basic sites (LTT would be right out)

and you might get lucky and find an old copy of Lynx (which is a text-only browser)

[Mark Kaine]

 

No one needs more than 64mb RAM anyways, don't let these guys lead you astray... win 95 even plays D00M perfectly fine! 

 

 

(I love how he tries not to laugh when he says 'windows 95 is *the* gaming platform'...) 

[Stugotsv10]

stuck on the boot disk part lol