steven36 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 An electron version of Windows 95 Windows 95 is the operating system that’s now used as a yardstick for what’s possible on modern devices and platforms. We’ve seen Microsoft’s popular OS appear on the Apple Watch, an Android Wear smartwatch, and even the Xbox One. Today, someone has gone a step further and made Windows 95 into an app that you can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Slack developer Felix Rieseberg is responsible for this glorious app, allowing nostalgia lovers to play around with Windows 95 in an electron app. Rieseberg has published the source code and app installers for this project on Github, and apps like Wordpad, phone dialer, MS Paint, and Minesweeper all run like you’d expect. Sadly, Internet Explorer isn’t fully functional as it simply refuses to load pages. The app its only 129MB in size and you can download it over at Github for both macOS and Windows. Once it’s running it surprisingly only takes up around 200MB of RAM, even when running all of the old Windows 95 system utilities, apps, and games. If you run into any issues with the app you can always reset the Windows 95 instance inside the app and start over again. Enjoy this quirky trip down memory lane. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.lemane Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 mac os the zip or deb package ? never mind (the zip s name is now mac os ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 7 hours ago, steven36 said: The app its only 129MB in size and you can download it over at Github for both macOS and Windows. rpm and deb are there too for linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 12 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Nice start-menu in this "app" ! Looks muuuch better then the start-menu of Win10................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neofita Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 what memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BimBamSmash Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Never thought I'd get teary eyed upon seeing some antiquated software in action again but here we are. For a moment I really truly felt like I was back in late 90s - though I admit the majority of things it reminded me of were irrelevant to computing in general. Good old days indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alnaloty Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 download links https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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