Windows 95 as an "app" for Windows 10, Linux & Mac?

[erpdude8]

Recently these articles came out mentioning about a Windows 95 app for recent Linux, Mac & Windows OSes:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pining-for-windows-95-you-can-now-download-it-as-a-free-app/

https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-relive-your-youth-with-windows-95-which-now-comes-as-an-electron-app

https://www.zdnet.com/article/did-you-love-windows-95-its-now-a-free-app-for-macos-windows-linux/

 

[Aethelflaed]

Yes, I've tried it. It works quite well, although the app doesn't appear to contain a scaler allowing the Win95 desktop to fill the app's entire window at higher resolutions.

[Jody Thornton]

Will this run on Windows 8 or Vista?  I know it needs .NET v4.5.

(just checking before I junk my own system)

 

 

Edited August 25, 2018 by Jody Thornton

[WinClient5270]

11 hours ago, Jody Thornton said:

Will this run on Windows 8 or Vista?  I know it needs .NET v4.5.

(just checking before I junk my own system)

 

 

Doesn't work on Vista  

Perhaps @UCyborg could fix it, since it's open source...

[Jody Thornton]

That's the same error I received.  I wonder if I should use it on Windows 8 instead of DOSBox.

 

[WinClient5270]

4 minutes ago, Jody Thornton said:

That's the same error I received.  I wonder if I should use it on Windows 8 instead of DOSBox.

 

http://prntscr.com/kmy1vu

Works fine for me on Windows 7 so don't see why it wouldn't work with 8.

[greenhillmaniac]

The program doesn't work on Vista because it uses Electron, based on Google Chrome's latest Javascript engine.

[WinClient5270]

5 hours ago, greenhillmaniac said:

The program doesn't work on Vista because it uses Electron, based on Google Chrome's latest Javascript engine.

Yeah I figured that. I wonder though if the missing call(s) can be rerouted or disabled altogether if it's not actually needed for the software to run/work properly. @UCyborg has done this with several pieces of unsupported software to get them to work with Vista. 

[waywyrd]

This looks interesting. Being a bit nostalgic I wish I could still run Win98SE, with IE removed, courtesy of https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html,  MDGx (from this forum) and a guy from the UK who had method he called Speedos. I had an incredibly fast O/S, with few or no BSD's, and it would run for hours before needing a reboot. Even though I started with a fairly high spec computer for the time, after the 98SE mods there was an significant speed and response increase.

[SRainharp]

While it's an interesting concept, I dislike Electron immensely... it's never going to have as decent performance as a native application.

[HarryTri]

On Κυριακή, 26 Αυγούστου 2018 at 7:22 AM, Jody Thornton said:

That's the same error I received.  I wonder if I should use it on Windows 8 instead of DOSBox.

You mean that it runs on Windows 8?

[Jody Thornton]

Well, it's been verified to run on Windows 7, and Windows 8 includes .NET v4.5, so I think it would run.  Now just to test if I could run DOS games on it (and better than in DOSBox)

:)

 

4 hours ago, HarryTri said:

You mean that it runs on Windows 8?

 

[Tripredacus]

As far as I am aware, Microsoft has not yet released Windows 95 into the public domain. As such, this software is warez as it contains a "disk image" of an installed Windows 95 OS.

Congrats to Techrepublic, Neowin and Zdnet for supporting software piracy.

[HarryTri]

Yet it is an abandonware case.

[dencorso]

43 minutes ago, HarryTri said:

Yet it is an abandonware case.

There's no such thing as abandonware. It's a myth, just like unicorns and centaurs.