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Windows 95 Is Now Available on Linux, Mac, and Windows as an Electron App

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https://news.softpedia.com/news/windows-95-is-now-available-on-linux-mac-and-windows-as-an-electron-app-522375.shtml

I don't really understand why Windows 95 can run on Electron App, as i know Electron is framework to build Desktop Application using HTML,Javascript, CSS.

But someone got it run. Checkout at https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95. 

 

The size of App only about 100MB little more, so why not try it? as softp*edia said, most of application in windows95 run without many problem. So cool to check it out.

As Vintage OS, it's cool to show off.

 

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Electron will find a way to make windows 95 take more than 4GB of memory. 

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Uhh, yeah, proof of concept.


With the age of Windows 9x, you can't really use it for much. And the most useful usecase for that is ancient games that won't work under more modern Windows versions...

 

So besides that, I don't see anything worthwhile to do with this. Except that you could do it.

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10 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

Uhh, yeah, proof of concept.


With the age of Windows 9x, you can't really use it for much. And the most useful usecase for that is ancient games that won't work under more modern Windows versions...

 

So besides that, I don't see anything worthwhile to do with this. Except that you could do it.

You can run Doom.

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Holy shit! Now I can play my Encarta game!

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3 minutes ago, NowakVulpix said:

You can run Doom.

On what Plattform you can not do that? ;)

Isn't that even like a browser game?

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Just now, Stefan Payne said:

On what Plattform you can not do that? ;)

Isn't that even like a browser game?

I mean, touché. But it runs Doom because of course it does.

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20 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

Uhh, yeah, proof of concept.


With the age of Windows 9x, you can't really use it for much. And the most useful usecase for that is ancient games that won't work under more modern Windows versions...

 

So besides that, I don't see anything worthwhile to do with this. Except that you could do it.

What old cnc machines that only run on 95 that do the job just as good

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32 minutes ago, NowakVulpix said:

You can run Doom.

Forget that, I just want to watch the 3D maze again.

 

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1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Forget that, I just want to watch the 3D maze again.

 

This was my shit back in the day. I could watch it for hours.

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29 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Forget that, I just want to watch the 3D maze again.

 

Oh, the nostalgia!  I used to love that!  It was so...mesmerizing.

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12 minutes ago, Techstorm970 said:

Oh, the nostalgia!  I used to love that!  It was so...mesmerizing.

If you were a kid, you were strangely scared of the Haunted House and Golden Era screensavers. 

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As we move forward and Windows changes more and more it may be easier to play 20-30 year old windows games on Linux via stuff like SteamPlay, WINE, Electron etc.

 

Or even on Windows 10 I guess you can probably create a virtual machine and run win95, win98 etc.

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2 hours ago, Spotty said:

 

I have some Windows 95 only classic games I'd like to try and boot. This looks great! :D

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1 hour ago, Stefan Payne said:

On what Plattform you can not do that? ;)

Isn't that even like a browser game?

Or an Apple Touch Bar game. 

If it can run Doom it has been made to run Doom.

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2 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Holy shit! Now I can play my Encarta game!

Hey! I was one of the thousands who enjoyed built in games and 3D tours of Encarta Encyclopedia back in the day. Young hipsters nowadays are spoiled by high speed broadband and Wikipedia.

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It's cool to see it once again after so long hah.. 

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5 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

-snip-

*cough* *cough* compatibility with older good games from the win 95 days *cough* *cough*

sorry, i have the flu, it's flu season in australia....

anyways, you can't do anything else apart from run the programs pre-packaged, any other program will not work.

a user tried getting doom to work but...

it's too horrible to view... it makes me sick

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5 hours ago, Spotty said:

Forget that, I just want to watch the 3D maze again.

 

Reminds me of Wolfenstein 3D for some reason.

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13 hours ago, Spotty said:

Forget that, I just want to watch the 3D maze again.

 

Used to spend quite a lot of time trying to figure out how to take control of it and move myself. xD

 

I'd watch the AI and be like "TURN BACK AROUND YOU MISSED A GEM!"

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16 hours ago, alibabaxi said:

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I have a major gripe with this.

 

WTF is windows 95 doing with a notepad file open referencing Twitter?  This is OS is bullshit!

 

Response typed on Netscape...;)

 

 

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