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So someone managed to get Windows 95 running on a smartwatch, because why not!

 

What do you guys think of this, cool or just plain useless?

 

 

An intrepid 16-year-old web developer hacked his Android Wear to run Windows 95. Ah, to be young and very good at undertaking whimsical hacking projects.

 

Corbin Davenport, who was just a twinkle in our eyes when Windows 95 debuted, figured out a way to pull up the vintage smart screen on his Android Wear using emulator software called aDosBox. The tiny start menu is adorable, though completely useless.

 

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/5/6910791/least-useful-hack-ever-puts-windows-95-on-your-smartwatch

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It's useless, but neat to see.

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wait what, how?

So you can also emulate a x86 architecture on arm? Or am I missing something?

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Boots about as fast as my PC from the time used to... 25X speed increase included. :lol:  

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thats very cool. good for him. Now he needs to fire up some mine sweeper and get gaming.

 

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bluetooth mouse and keyboard and you're good to go!

 

I wanna play some SimCity 2000 on this thing!

 

 

 

o wait..., does Windows 95 even support bluetooth?

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I was really excited first but it seems like he just got it working through a DOS emulator.

It's cool and all, but it would have been far more impressive if it used a compatibility layer instead.

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I saw someone doing it with XP.

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I didn't know Dosbox could run Windows 95.

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This is incredible! I am looking forward to jailbreaking the new iWatch soon.

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wait what, how?

So you can also emulate a x86 architecture on arm? Or am I missing something?

you have been able to do so for awhile. The reason this guy used windows 95 is because emulating x86 on arm is so inefficient, it is the only os that can even remotely be run on arm. Its hard enough to make a vm, but making a cpu act like another cpu is very demanding

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you have been able to do so for awhile. The reason this guy used windows 95 is because emulating x86 on arm is so inefficient, it is the only os that can even remotely be run on arm. Its hard enough to make a vm, but making a cpu act like another cpu is very demanding

I didn't know that. I have run an Android emulator for a while on my x86 desktop and that did cost a lot cpu power. I didnt know you could do it the other way around as well.

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when can i play games on my washing machine?

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I didn't know that. I have run an Android emulator for a while on my x86 desktop and that did cost a lot cpu power. I didnt know you could do it the other way around as well.

The android emulator on your desktop is just a vm for android x86. It isn't emulating arm. Android has an x86 version of it. If you are interested, google android qemu and bosch. those are the emulators for android

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Sure you can run anything with the right emulator and as long as it's old emulated software didn't need powerful hardware to begin with.

This really isn't news, other than "that's neat"

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I was really excited first but it seems like he just got it working through a DOS emulator.

It's cool and all, but it would have been far more impressive if it used a compatibility layer instead.

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How many working/successful BILs have been created? I know only of Rosetta...though that's typical of me.

I wasn't really thinking of something as advanced of binary translation. I was more thinking along the lines of Wine.

If you want a great example of a binary translator then look no further than the Dolphin emulator. It does PowerPC to x86 translation.

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My first PC was running Win 95 haha. 

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Can it run crysis?

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It does PowerPC to x86 translation.

Precisely what Rosetta does...

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But can it play CrysisStarCraft?

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