Running Windows 95 on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 Just Got a Lot Better

[The AchieVer]

Running Windows 95 on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 Just Got a Lot Better 

Developer Felix Rieseberg released a new version of his Windows95 Electron app that lets users relive the old Microsoft Windows 95 experience on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10 computers.

Windows95 v2.0 saw the light of day earlier this week and it appears to be the biggest update to the application since its initial launch in August 2018. The new release introduces support for sound, better support for HiDPI/4K displays, as well as the ability to "reset" a machine, according to the developer.

Furthermore, it looks like the Windows95 v2.0 release is even bundled with a few video games so you won't get bored while you're trying the old Microsoft Windows 95 experience on your Linux, Mac, or Windows 10 computer. Among these, we can mention A-10 Tank Killer, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Grand Prix Circuit.A completely new Windows 95 disk image with new appsThe new game selection included in the Windows95 v2.0 release is accompanied by a few old school apps like Microsoft FrontPage WYSIWYG HTML editor, Microsoft FrontPage Server, and Netscape 2.0 web browser. These apps and games are now installed by default in the Windows95 app so you can enjoy them out-of-the-box.

Of course, this means that the size of the app got a bump from around 100MB to almost 300MB, but that shouldn't be a problem these days when we have ultra-fast Internet speeds. Under the hood, there are some performance improvements like the fact that there's now about 500MB of free space in the virtual disk image so you store more files.

A completely new Windows 95 disk image was added as well, and the app has been updated to Electron 4.0.4. You can download the Windows95 v2.0 app right now from GitHub. Packages are available for macOS, 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10 (standalone and installer), as well as 64-bit RPM and DEB-based GNU/Linux distributions.
 

 

 Playing Doom

 

 

 Playing A-10 Tank Killer

 

 

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[BimBamSmash]

So, there are people out there who are willing to play around with Windows 95 not just for a few minutes, but on a regular basis. Mind. Blown.

[luisam]

7 hours ago, BimBamSmash said:

So, there are people out there who are willing to play around with Windows 95 not just for a few minutes, but on a regular basis. Mind. Blown.

 

I actually know people playing with Commodore 64 and TRS-80, implementing hard drive and internet connection. I know a fellow doing his annual accounting with a Radio Shack 16 bits and another one still doing some serious work with an Amiga.

[BimBamSmash]

6 minutes ago, luisam said:

I actually know people playing with Commodore 64 and TRS-80, implementing hard drive and internet connection. I know a fellow doing his annual accounting with a Radio Shack 16 bits and another one still doing some serious work with an Amiga.

 

Not to mention the Game of Thrones author is still doing all of his writings on some antiquated MS-DOS based word processor. Or at least he claims to.

 

I cannot relate to this line of thought. Not for now. But seeing how things are moving to the cloud and how I resent this crap-as-a-service thing, I might become one of those guys in the future to some people.

[luisam]

3 hours ago, agyat said:

What browsers work on Windows 95?

If my memory won't fail, Windows 95 came with early versions of Internet Explorer and also had available Netscape as a third party browser. Later got updated to IE 5.5 SP2. I'm not sure if IE6 could run under Windows 95 (guess, not) 

 

4 hours ago, BimBamSmash said:

Not to mention the Game of Thrones author is still doing all of his writings on some antiquated MS-DOS based word processor

 

Probably Wordstar! At its best moments was the most used Word processor under MS-DOS. Guess he has a really old printer and computer 

 

 

[BimBamSmash]

13 hours ago, luisam said:

Probably Wordstar! At its best moments was the most used Word processor under MS-DOS. Guess he has a really old printer and computer 

 

If it is not museum stuff I don't know what it is. Wonder how he gets his printer cartridges sorted out - or how he gets repairs or services for his hardware.

[Arachnoid]

He might use a dot matrix printer with scrolls of paper and a ribbon similar to an old type writer or just convert to print on another pc. An interesting project I will certainly have a look, I wonder if assigning irqs etc is done automatically unlike in the olden days of manual configuration.