Windows 95 Running in the Browser
23 points by athousandsteps 2 days ago | 11 comments
  • netsharc 2 days ago |
    On Vivaldi it BSOD'ed after the loading screen... that amused me.
    • RunningDroid 2 days ago |
      Same in Firefox on Android
  • starfleet_bop 2 days ago |
    Is this running actual Windows 95 binaries in some kind of emulator?
  • wdfx 2 days ago |
    Booted to desktop and read only 14.1MB from disk. impressive.
  • soraminazuki 2 days ago |
    It's kind of funny to see emulations of Windows 9x being so snappy. Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed. People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.
    • gary_0 2 days ago |
      "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."

      (Referring to the CEOs of Intel and Microsoft at the time.)

    • hulitu a day ago |
      > People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.

      They still are. For some reason Win 10 and 11 needs _a looooot_ of time to display the password prompt when the screen is locked and you press a key or move the mouse.

    • justsomehnguy a day ago |
      > Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed.

      And now, kids, we are looking at the typicalest personal bias.

      Things were different those times and you could had a stable platform (for weeks) with a carefully selected components or have a BSOD shitshow running a cheapest soundcard on some chinesium PSU.

      Do your personal experience translate to everyone's?

  • princearthur a day ago |
    The MacOS Classic equivalent: https://infinitemac.org/
  • smusamashah a day ago |